Sermons on Joshua

10th Anniversary Celebration Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Communion Rev. Dr. Bruce Taylor Rev. Dr. Tom Willadsen Joshua 3: 7-17; Thessalonians 2: 9-13; Matthew 23: 1-12 “THE STARTING POINT” Salvation, as far as the Bible is concerned, is not an abstraction.  And in the Old Testament, at least, salvation is never purely spiritual.  Salvation, in ancient Jewish understanding, was always salvation from something dangerous, threatening, and specific.  And, conversely, salvation was therefore always salvation to something desirable, good, and precise. …