Photo: Pascal van de Vendel, via Unsplash Joshua 1:6–9 CONTEXT: After a decades long exodus through the As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. 6   Be strong and

fortunes,  Lord, like streams in the Negev. 5   Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. 6  Today: 2 Corinthians 6

Romans 12:1–16 (NIV) CONTEXT: We read the first two verses of this chapter Monday , verses 3-6 on Tuesday function, 5   so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6  

put my trust in you. 5  You, LORD, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you. 6  Here's how it looks charted out: v1-4 - Save your servant, LORD v5-6 - God's unfailing love v7 - Trouble

tent of meeting. 5  Moses said to the assembly, “This is what the L ORD  has commanded to be done.” 6  sanctuary.” 5   So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered. 6  

they listen or not—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them. 6 And the four faces look in every direction (1:6, 10, 17).

6  Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and was commanded to speak to people who would hear, but understand not, and see, but perceive not (Isa. 6:

justified when you judge. 5  Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6   Our moral failures are not simply a matter of what we do. They are a matter of what we do because of who we are . Today: Luke 6

In Romans 7:4-6, Paul writes: 4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 As Paul wrote in verse 6, “we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not the old way of the written code

The people of Israel then began to demand a king like the nations. 1 Samuel 8:6-20 (NIV) 6  But when But the fact of the matter is that politics are an inseparable part of your life, so like every other