CONTENTS
About the Straight to the Heart Series 9
Introduction: The God Who Keeps on Giving 11
JOSHUA 1-12: GOD'S GIFT TO HIS PEOPLE
Step Forward (Joshua 1:1-18) 16
Unreasonable (Joshua 2:1-24) 21
Believing Is Seeing (Joshua 3:1-17) 25
Stones (Joshua 4:1-24) 29
Whose Side Are You On? (Joshua 5:1-15) 33
Blood on the Walls (Joshua 6:1-20) 37
Genocide (Joshua 6:21-27) 41
Trading Places (Joshua 6:22-7:26) 45
Presumption (Joshua 7:1-8:35) 49
Too Busy for God (Joshua 9:1-27) 54
The Day the Sun Stood Still (Joshua 10:1-15) 58
Things Go South (Joshua 10:16-43) 62
Hard Northerners (Joshua 11:1-20) 66
Go and Get Your Land (Joshua 11:21-12:24) 70
JOSHUA 13-24: GOD'S GIFT TO EACH OF US
Let's Get Personal (Joshua 13:1-19:51) 76
Perhaps (Joshua 14:6-15) 80
A Woman's Job (Joshua 15:13-19 & 17:3-6) 84
Not a Christian Word (Joshua 17:12-13) 88
Greener Grass (Joshua 17:14-18) 92
The Accursed (Joshua 20:1-21:42) 97
Long-Distance Relationship (Joshua 21:43-22:34) 101
Final Warning (Joshua 23:1-16) 105
Success and Succession (Joshua 24:1-33) 109
A Dying Man to Dying Men (Joshua 24:1-33) 113
JUDGES: GOD'S GIFT TO SINNERS
Backwards (Judges 1:1-2:5) 118
Director's Chair (Judges 2:6-3:6) 122
Secret Weapon (Judges 3:7-11) 126
The Impossible (Judges 3:12-31) 130
The Stomach of a Judge (Judges 4:1-24) 135
We Fall Apart (Judges 5:1-31) 139
Milk and Honey (Judges 5:24-31) 144
Ignorance Is Not Bliss (Judges 6:1-13) 149
How the Light Gets In (Judges 6:11-40) 153
Coming on Too Strong (Judges 6:33-7:8) 157
One Day (Judges 7:9-22) 161
The Plod (Judges 7:23-8:21) 166
The King of Israel (Judges 8:22-9:57) 171
The Dirty Dozen (Judges 10:1-11:29) 175
Selective Reading (Judges 11:12-40) 180
Louder Than Words (Judges 12:1-15) 185
The Great Deliverer (Judges 13:1-25) 189
Strike One (Judges 14:1-9) 194
Strike Two (Judges 14:10-20) 198
Strike Three (Judges 15:1-20) 202
You're Out (Judges 16:1-19) 206
Alone (Judges 16:20-21) 210
Resurrection Power (Judges 16:22-31) 215
The Back of the Book (Judges 17:1-13) 219
Settlers (Judges 18:1-31) 223
Newsflash (Judges 19:1-20:48) 228
The Great Saviour (Judges 21:1-25) 232
RUTH: GOD'S GIFT TO YOU
Fruitless (Ruth 1:1-5) 238
The Prodigal Daughter (Ruth 1:6-22) 242
The Outsider (Ruth 2:1-18) 246
The Guardian (Ruth 2:19-23) 250
It's Your Move (Ruth 3:1-9) 254
The Avengers Assemble (Ruth 3:10-4:12) 258
Surprise Ending (Ruth 4:11-22) 262
Conclusion: The God Who Keeps on Giving 266