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Ryan Corcoran on March 14th, 2010

Joshua 18-21 Ryan: One thing that reading through The Daily Bible: In Chronological Order day by day does for you is give you more of the feeling that the Bible is one big book that tells one big story, instead of 66 books that are disconnected and independent stories. That being said, I view the “literary” [...]

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Continue reading about Day 73: Promise fulfilled

Ryan Corcoran on March 13th, 2010

Joshua 13:1-12, Joshua 13:14-33, Joshua 14:1-15 (Judges 1:20), Joshua 15:1-12, Joshua 15:20-62, Joshua 16:1-9, Joshua 17:1-10, Joshua 17:14-18 Ryan: When I was a young boy, one set of grandparents always gave me a U.S. Savings Bond for Christmas. As you might expect a young child to feel, it was always a feeling of, <sarcasm>”Oh yea… [...]

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Continue reading about Day 72: Receiving their inheritance

Ryan Corcoran on March 12th, 2010

Joshua 9-12 Ryan: Whenever you’re leaving a job/city/church, you always have a feeling of concern about who is going to take your place, and whether they will be able to do “as good of a job” as you did. I’m sure Moses felt a little bit of that when God was showing Moses the promised [...]

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Continue reading about Day 71: The Fall of Canaan

Ryan Corcoran on March 11th, 2010

Joshua 6-8 Ryan: Today, I’m not going to write about something that was in our Daily Bible Reading, but rather, I am going to write about something that was conspicuously not in our Daily Bible Reading. Having just finished reading about the life of Moses and the Israelites’ wandering in the desert, it’s still fresh in [...]

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Continue reading about Day 70: Joshua fit the battle of Jericho

Ryan Corcoran on March 9th, 2010

Deut. 32:48-52, Deut. 33:1-29, Deut. 34:1-12 Ryan: After reading about God showing the promised land to Moses and his subsequent death on Mount Nebo, I got a strong urge to know what Moses saw. So I looked up Mount Nebo on Google Earth. It was interesting to see the terrain, but since Google still doesn’t [...]

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Continue reading about Day 68: The end of an era

Ryan Corcoran on March 7th, 2010

Deut. 16:16-19, Deut. 28, Deut. 29:2-29, Deut. 30, Deut. 29:1, Deut. 27 Ryan: I am currently reading (other than my daily Bible reading) a book by Francine Rivers called The Prophet: Amos. It is one of her outstanding historical fiction novels in which she builds a narrative around the facts and dialogue that appear in the [...]

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Continue reading about Day 66: “Then the people shall say ‘Amen!’”

Ryan Corcoran on March 5th, 2010

Lev. 19:9-10, Deut. 24:19-22, Deut. 23:24-25, Lev. 25:35-38, Deut. 5:16, Lev. 19:3, Lev. 20:9, Deut. 21:18-21, Lev. 19:32, Ex. 22:22-24, Lev. 19:33-34, Lev. 24:22, Lev. 19:14, Lev. 19:16-18, Deut. 22:1-4, Deut. 5:21, Deut. 25:4, Deut. 22:6-7, Deut. 20:1-20, Deut. 23:9-14 Ryan: The phrase “do not ignore” kept jumping out at me during today’s reading. How [...]

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Continue reading about Day 64: Welfare & Warfare