Joshua (NIV Application Commentary) ministry-pastoral-resources These are typical experiences for

These are typical experiences for many who try to read

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of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion to better understand what they are reading and to encourage them to persist in working through this important but challenging book

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Joshua (NIV Application Commentary) ministry-pastoral-resources These are typical experiences forReading Joshua can be, frankly, a jarring experience. Serious, troubling questions about Gods attitude toward his created peoples arise, questions with no easy answer. But the book of Joshua presents itself, warts (and wars!) and all, and asks readers to let it tell its story from its point of view and out of its ancient context. It asks them to give it the benefit of the doubt and permit it to speak to them. This commentary aims to give its voice a