Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly

Teaching the next generation is more than assigning verses to memorize or Bible lessons to complete. It’s relating the wonderful, exciting, and sometimes frightening narrative of what He has done in your own life! Your kids need to see the unique way God’s fingerprints have touched your life.

In today’s episode, God connects Joshua to Moses three times in five verses. God’s plan is so much bigger than one lifetime, but He loves to connect people together generation after generation to accomplish His incredible purposes. Whose baton have you grasped, and where are you running with it?

Sometimes we get the idea that God only does amazing things for other people. Nothing to be further from the truth. Our problem is our way-too-short attention span and short term memory loss. Guess what? God knows how we are! And He gave the people a couple of really practical ways to overcome spiritual amnesia.

As if it weren’t enough that God told His people to step into a flowing river, He told them to do it at the worst possible time. God’s not interested in your comfort zone; He’s interested in your obedience.

Have you notices that some people have been given more talents than others? And the same could be said for a person’s influence… some simply have way more sway on other people’s lives. Why is that? In today’s podcast we will learn why God chooses to magnify some people for His purposes. But we will also discover the proper attitude of the one who has been magnified.

We have all heard the advice to, “keep your eyes on the Lord.” The podcast today makes that advice more than a general statement—it provides the practicality that so many Christians are looking for in following God. Listen and learn what it means to maintain a prioritized focus on God and His Word.

Tucked away in the wonderful story of Rahab is an incredible picture of Jesus and the salvation He brings. The parallels are amazing and the story itself is compelling. God had the power to take a broken life and use it for exciting new purposes!

Forty years earlier, Joshua had entered Canaan as a spy. Now he sends two of his own spies on a reconnaissance mission. Some might view this as a lack of faith. But Joshua was not spying to determine IF he should obey God; he was spying to better determine HOW to obey God.

On the launchpad of Joshua’s greatest challenge, he received a tremendous boost of encouragement from a group of people who simply vowed to keep their word. They had previously promised to help, and now that it was time to act, they committed to follow through. What commitments have you made? How are you following through?

How often have we allowed fear to paralyze us from moving forward? What incentives did God provide for Joshua to move forward? In what practical ways can fear be overcome? Today’s podcast will answer those questions and more…

Life sometimes throws responsibilities on us that seem unmanageable, even downright frightening. Joshua faced a huge responsibility, and now would no longer be able to rely upon the resources, patterns, or leaders that had brought him to that place—they were all gone! What encouraged him?