Straight to the Heart of Joshua, Judges and Ruth

Phil serves as an Elder, Evangelist and Bible Teacher at Queens Road Church, in Wimbledon, London. He also serves as a trans-local Bible Teacher within the Newfrontiers family of churches. He has spent four years working twice through the Bible in the original languages.

• CONTENTSAbout the Straight to the Heart Series 9Introduction: The God Who Keeps on Giving 11JOSHUA 1–12: GOD’S GIFT TO HIS PEOPLEStep Forward (Joshua 1:1–18) 16Unreasonable (Joshua 2:1–24) 21Believing Is Seeing (Joshua 3:1–17) 25Stones (Joshua 4:1–24) 29Whose Side Are You On? (Joshua 5:1–15) 33Blood on the Walls (Joshua 6:1–20) 37Genocide (Joshua 6:21–27) 41Trading Places (Joshua 6:22–7:26) 45Presumption (Joshua 7:1–8:35) 49Too Busy for God (Joshua 9:1–27) 54The Day the Sun Stood Still (Joshua 10:1–15) 58Things Go South (Joshua 10:16–43) 62Hard Northerners (Joshua 11:1–20) 66Go and Get Your Land (Joshua 11:21–12:24) 70JOSHUA 13–24: GOD’S GIFT TO EACH OF USLet’s Get Personal (Joshua 13:1–19:51) 76Perhaps (Joshua 14:6–15) 80A Woman’s Job (Joshua 15:13–19 & 17:3–6) 84Not a Christian Word (Joshua 17:12–13) 88Greener Grass (Joshua 17:14–18) 92The Accursed (Joshua 20:1–21:42) 97Long-Distance Relationship (Joshua 21:43–22:34) 101Final Warning (Joshua 23:1–16) 105Success and Succession (Joshua 24:1–33) 109A Dying Man to Dying Men (Joshua 24:1–33) 113JUDGES: GOD’S GIFT TO SINNERSBackwards (Judges 1:1–2:5) 118Director’s Chair (Judges 2:6–3:6) 122Secret Weapon (Judges 3:7–11) 126The Impossible (Judges 3:12–31) 130The Stomach of a Judge (Judges 4:1–24) 135We Fall Apart (Judges 5:1–31) 139Milk and Honey (Judges 5:24–31) 144Ignorance Is Not Bliss (Judges 6:1–13) 149How the Light Gets In (Judges 6:11–40) 153Coming on Too Strong (Judges 6:33–7:8) 157One Day (Judges 7:9–22) 161The Plod (Judges 7:23–8:21) 166The King of Israel (Judges 8:22–9:57) 171The Dirty Dozen (Judges 10:1–11:29) 175Selective Reading (Judges 11:12–40) 180Louder Than Words (Judges 12:1–15) 185The Great Deliverer (Judges 13:1–25) 189Strike One (Judges 14:1–9) 194Strike Two (Judges 14:10–20) 198Strike Three (Judges 15:1–20) 202You’re Out (Judges 16:1–19) 206Alone (Judges 16:20–21) 210Resurrection Power (Judges 16:22–31) 215The Back of the Book (Judges 17:1–13) 219Settlers (Judges 18:1–31) 223Newsflash (Judges 19:1–20:48) 228The Great Saviour (Judges 21:1–25) 232RUTH: GOD’S GIFT TO YOUFruitless (Ruth 1:1–5) 238The Prodigal Daughter (Ruth 1:6–22) 242The Outsider (Ruth 2:1–18) 246The Guardian (Ruth 2:19–23) 250It’s Your Move (Ruth 3:1–9) 254The Avengers Assemble (Ruth 3:10–4:12) 258Surprise Ending (Ruth 4:11–22) 262Conclusion: The God Who Keeps on Giving 266

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