St. Luke's, Ramsgate

"But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15This Sunday is the last on our series on the book of Joshua.

"He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son!" Revelation 21:7Today we continue in Joshua and hear of Caleb's reward.

"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." (Colossians 1:15)The readings from Joshua 10:1-14 and Matthew 15:21-28 describe pivotal moments in the stories of the Old Testament and the New Testament respectively, moments which are of great consequence for us in how we understand what God is doing in the world today.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5)This is the next instalment of our Joshua series. The question I want to explore is: do we trust God to speak into the things in our life that seem obvious?

"For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." (Romans 8:13)The story of Achan reminds us that sin is serious. It is deadly. His sin caused the whole of Israel to fail. That may not seem fair, but it reminds us that we have a collective responsibility to take sin seriously and to encourage and even discipline one another, so that sin is rooted out.