.CHAPTER 1: GLORY DAYS
1. “Conquest Confusion at Yale,” Bryant G. Wood, BibleArcheology.org, November 20, 2012, www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2012/11/20/Conquest-Confusion-at-Yale.aspx#Article. Also see, Ronald B. Allen, “The Land of Israel,” in Israel: The Land and the People: An Evangelical Affirmation of God’s Promises, ed. H. Wayne House (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1998), 17–18, 24. Caleb says he was forty years old when he went to spy out Canaan (Josh. 14:7). The Hebrews were in the wilderness for forty years (Ex. 16:35). They wandered in the wilderness for thirty-eight years after the spies returned, which means Caleb was seventy-eight years old at the beginning of the conquest. Caleb says he is eighty-five years old in Joshua 14:10, forty-five years of grace from God since Kadesh Barnea (38+7).
2. Kenneth O. Gangel, Holman Old Testament Commentary: Joshua, ed. Max Anders (Nashville: B&H, 2002), 2.
3. “To Canaan’s Land I’m on My Way,” Praise for the Lord (Nashville: Praise Press, 1992), 694.
4. REVEAL Spiritual Life Survey database 2007–2014. For more information on the REVEAL Survey see Greg L. Hawkins and Cally Parkinson, Move: What 1,000 Churches Reveal About Spiritual Growth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011).
5. “The Global Religious Landscape,” Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project, December 18, 2012, www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/.
CHAPTER 2: INHERIT YOUR INHERITANCE
1. Numbers 26:2, 51.
2. Eugene H. Peterson, “Introduction to Joshua,” in The Message Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2003), 364.
3. “Amorites,” JewishEncyclopedia.com, www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1422-amorites.
4. In many ways Ephesians is the New Testament counterpart to the book of Joshua.
5. Dwight Edwards, Revolution Within: A Fresh Look at Supernatural Living (Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, 2001), 5.
6. Spiros Zodhiates, ed., Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible: Key Insights into God’s Word, New American Standard Bible, rev. ed. (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2008), #4789, p.2280.
CHAPTER 3: TAKE HEED TO THE VOICE YOU HEED
1. Greg L. Hawkins and Cally Parkinson, Move: What 1,000 Churches Reveal about Spiritual Growth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), 19.
2. “Global Scripture Access,” United Bible Societies, www.unitedbiblesocieties.org/what-we-do/translation/global-scripture-access/.
3. “353 Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus Christ,” According to the Scriptures.org, www.accordingtothescriptures.org/prophecy/353prophecies.html.
4. Dale Ralph Davis, Joshua: No Falling Words (Fearn, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2000), 19.
CHAPTER 4: IT’S OKAY IF YOU’RE NOT OKAY
1. “Price of Success: Will the Recycled Orchestra Last?” CBSNews.com, November 17, 2013, www.cbsnews.com/news/price-of-success-will-the-recycled-orchestra-last/.
2. Joshua 2:1; 6:17, 25; Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25.
CHAPTER 5: UNPACK YOUR BAGS
1. From a conversation with Jimmy Wayne and used by permission. For a full account see Jimmy Wayne with Ken Abraham, Walk to Beautiful: The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way (Nashville: W Publishing, 2014).
2. F. B. Meyer, Joshua: And the Land of Promise (London: Morgan and Scott, 1870), 35.
CHAPTER 7: CALL ON YOUR COMMANDER
1. As recounted in an interview with Joy Veron on October 10, 2013, and used by permission.
2. Fall of Jericho: Unearthing One of the Bible’s Greatest Mysteries (Worcester, PA: Gateway Films/Vision Video, 2008), DVD.
3. H. I. Hester, The Heart of Hebrew History: A Study of the Old Testament (Liberty, MO: Quality Press, 1962), 143–44.
4. Adam Hamilton, “Compassion, Vision and Perseverance: Lessons from Moses,” The United Methodist Reporter, January 22, 2013, http://unitedmethodistreporter.com/2013/01/22/adam-hamiltons-sermon-attodays-national-prayer-service/. See also, Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), xxi, 125.
5. From a conversation with Tammy Trent and used by permission.
CHAPTER 8: WALK CIRCLES AROUND JERICHO
1. “Worship of these gods [Baalism] carried with it some of the most demoralizing practices then in existence. Among them were child sacrifice, a practice long since discarded in Egypt and Babylonia, sacred prostitution, and snake-worship on a scale unknown among other peoples.” G. Ernest Wright and Floyd V. Filson, The Westminster Historical Atlas to the Bible (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1945), 36.
2. Spiros Zodhiates, ed., Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible: Key Insights into God’s Word, New American Standard Bible, rev. ed. (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2008), #3423, p. 1896.
3. George V. Wigram and Ralph D. Winter, The Word Study Concordance (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1972), 477.
4. According to the REVEAL Spiritual Life Survey database 2007–2014, this number is 89 percent. For more information on the REVEAL Survey see Greg L. Hawkins and Cally Parkinson, Move: What 1,000 Churches Reveal About Spiritual Growth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011).
5. Used by permission.
CHAPTER 10: NO FAILURE IS FATAL
1. Leigh Montville, “Wide and to the Right: The Kick That Will Forever Haunt Scott Norwood,” SI.com, last modified September 21, 2011, http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/painful_moments_in_sports/09/09/Scott.Norwood.Super.Bowl/.
2. “The size of this group is indicated by the text as 30,000 men, which appears to be an unusually large contingent for such a secret maneuver as ambush close to the city. One plausible answer to the problem is that the text should read ‘thirty officers.’ This suggestion is made by R. E. D. Clark, who points out that the Hebrew word elep, translated ‘thousand,’ can also be translated as ‘chief ’ or ‘officer,’ as it is translated in other passages (cf. 1 Chron. 12:23–27; 2 Chron. 13:3, 17; 17:14–19). If this were the case, then the thirty-man group was a highly selected commando unit, assigned to enter the vacated city and burn it. This view may better explain also the description of the contingent as chosen for being ‘mighty men of valor’—more meaningful to a thirty-man group than to a 30,000-man unit. It should be noted here, however, that the second ambuscade definitely involved 5,000 men (8:12).” Irving L. Jensen, Joshua: Rest-Land Won (Chicago: Moody Press, 1966), 72.
CHAPTER 11: VOICES, CHOICES, AND CONSEQUENCES
1. David M. Howard Jr., Joshua, vol. 5, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2002), 212.
2. F. B. Meyer, Joshua: And the Land of Promise (London: Morgan and Scott, 1870), 96.
3. See also Deuteronomy 27.
4. C. S. Lewis, Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 152.
5. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, What If the Bible Had Never Been Written? (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 30–31.
CHAPTER 12: PRAY AUDACIOUS PRAYERS
1. Donald G. Bloesch, The Struggle of Prayer (Colorado Springs, CO: Helmers and Howard, 1988), 79.
2. Ibid., 80.
3. E. M. Bounds, The Complete Works of E. M. Bounds on Prayer (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990), 311–12.
4. Greg Pruett, Extreme Prayer: The Impossible Prayers God Promises to Answer (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2014), 5.
5. Ibid, 69.
CHAPTER 13: YOU BE YOU
1. Art Miller, The Power of Uniqueness (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999), 93.
2. Adapted from Joel Osteen, Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week (New York: FaithWords, 2011), 131–32.
CHAPTER 14: THE GOD-DRENCHED MIND
1. F. B. Meyer, Joshua: And the Land of Promise (London: Morgan and Scott, 1870), 143.
CHAPTER 15: NO FALLING WORDS
1. Used with permission.
2. Dale Ralph Davis, Joshua: No Falling Words (Fearn, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2000).
3. Edward Mote, “This Solid Rock” in Sacred Selections for the Church: A Collection of Sacred Selections Featuring Choice Favorites Old and New (Kendallville, IN: Sacred Selections, 1956), no. 120.
CHAPTER 16: GOD FIGHTS FOR YOU
1. Sean Alfano, “Teens Arrested after Posting YouTube Video of Beating 13-Year-Old Boy and Hanging Him from a Tree,” New York Daily News, February 1, 2011, www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teens-arrested-posting-youtube-video-beating-13-year-old-boy-hanging-tree-article-1.137868. See also Rick Reilly, “Eagles over Wolves in a Rout,” ESPN.com, last modified February 15, 2011, http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6120346.
2. W. E. Vine, Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Original Greek Words with Their Precise Meanings for English Readers (McLean, VA: MacDonald Publishing, n.d.), 554.
AFTERWORD
1. Eugene H. Peterson, “Introduction to Joshua,” in The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2002), 361.