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Moses the servant of God was dead. Joshua had taken over the reigns of leadership. Now the Israelites were on the cusp of entering the promised land. There was one major hurdle over. Before them was the river Jordan, and it was at full-flood stage. How were the 2-3 million desert wanderers going to cross this raging river?  The Book of Joshua (chapter 3) tells us that God did a miracle-the waters stopped flowing some distance away and the Israelites crossed the dry river bed to the other side. This may sounds like fantasy to modern sceptics but let me say this; recorded quakes have dammed the Jordan River more than once, in 1160CE, 1267, 1534, 1834, 1906   with the most recent in 1927 when the waters were held up for 22 hours! Did God use this mechanism to enable the Israelites cross the river? If He did, then the miracle would not be so much that the river was dammed (as that is possible via purely naturalistic events) but rather the timing of the event. However, today w...

Phil. 2:3-4(NLT)  Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. One time, one of my college friends remarked out of the blue, “Hey, I think I am the most humble person among all of you.” We all burst out laughing and this became a running joke for the rest of the year. It pleased us to no end to see him squirm each time someone said (in a singsong   voice), “I am so humble, please give me some of that bread” or publicly to a girl, “I am so humble, please accompany me to the dining hall”. However it set me thinking about what it means NOT to be humble. So here is a sample. ·       A gentle or quiet personality does not equate to humility. I have met some very quiet, gentle-looking individuals who are also the most stubborn and big-headed men this side of town. I hear they are called the qui...