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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .

Moses anticipates that if they are not alert to the God of emancipation, they will end up right back in another system of coercion. Because the land is fertile, its produce will make Israel safe and happy. And if Israel can increase its produce, it will be safer and happier. And Israel will discover that the sky is the limit! The fertility of the land and the productivity of the system will make Israel acquisitive; Israel will come to think that the goal of its life is to acquire and acquire and acquire. And in order to acquire, Israelites must compete with the neighbor. The system will turn one’s neighbor into a competitor and a threat and a challenge.

Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide

Walter Brueggemann

In short, hell is simply one’s freely chosen identity apart from God on a trajectory into infinity. We see this process “writ small” in addictions to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and pornography.

The Reason for God

Timothy Keller

A marriage is not a joining of two worlds, but an abandoning of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed.

The Mystery of Marriage 20th Anniversary Edition

Mike Mason

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