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1 Samuel 10: Flasks and Horns

1 Samuel 9: Gifts and Character

1 Samuel 8: Minister’s Kids

1 Samuel 7: Israel Would Win in Battle When They Were Right with God

1 Samuel 6: They Had Seven Months with God and Wanted Nothing to Do with Him

1 Samuel 5: A Showdown in Enemy Territory

1 Samuel 4: One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

1 Samuel 3: Learning to Hear the Voice of God and Then Speak What You Heard

1 Samuel 2: Same House but Not the Same People

1 Samuel 1: Opening Up Things That Have Been Closed

Ruth 4: You Wanted the Land but Not the Moabite, Big Mistake!

Ruth 3: The Kinsman Becomes a Redeemer

Ruth 2: If You Want to See God's Work, Learn to Read from Right to Left

Ruth 1: A Nation's Prayer That Would Connect Two Countries for a Global Miracle

Judges 21: There Is a High Price to Pay for Wearing the Crown That Belongs to God Alone

Judges 20: The Danger of Unrecognized Heart Issues

Judges 19: Israel Has Chosen Insanity

Judges 18: 600 Proves If God Is Real or Not

Judges 17: What Happens When There Is No King?

Judges 16: What Do You Do When Your Deliverer Needs Deliverance?

Judges 15: Samson Couldn't Come to Our Bible School

Judges 14: Flirting with Your Calling

Judges 13: God Shows Up Without an Invitation

Judges 12: Ephraim Did It Again

Judges 11: Being on the Wrong Side of History

Judges 10: Not Everyone Needs a Biography Written to Make a Difference

Judges 9: There Is a Big Difference When God Calls a Man to Lead and When Man Appoints Himself to Lead

Judges 8: I’m Tired, but I’m Still Chasing the Enemy

Judges 7: God Is Looking for Those Who Do Civilian Things but Never Lose Their Soldier Mentality

Judges 6: You May Have Gotten the Wrong Man—No Way You Can Use Me, God

Judges 5: A Really Convicting Song, and We Need More of Them Today

Judges 4: She Never Expected to Be a General, and He Never Expected to Make It to the New Testament

Judges 3: I Hate Tests, but I Know They Are Necessary

Judges 2: The Substitute History Teacher

Judges 1: What Started as a Conquest Deteriorated into Compromise

Joshua 24: A Powerful Statement That Called for a Response

Joshua 23: God Did Exactly What He Said He Would Do

Joshua 22: Civil War Averted by Simply Listening

Joshua 21: Reversing the Curse: How 48 Cities Means Grace

Joshua 20: Six Cities of Refuge for Them Is Actually One Person for Us

Joshua 19: Joshua Goes Last

Joshua 18: Why Are You Sleeping on a Sofa When a Bed Has Been Provided for You?

Joshua 17: You Want More? Will You Become a Warrior?

Joshua 16: An Alarming Addendum to a Great Day

Joshua 15: We See You in Your Children

Joshua 14: Everybody Needs to Listen to the 85-Year-Old Man

Joshua 13: Have You Ever Told Someone You’re Old? God Did.

Joshua 12: Go West, Young Man, But Don't Forget East as You Go

Joshua 11: Your Enemies Will Prove God's Promises

Joshua 10: Possibly Forfeiting the Greatest Miracle of Your Life by Not Keeping Your Word

Joshua 9: Godless Christianity...A Plea to Obey the Nudge

Joshua 8: Fighting the Same Battle Twice but With Different Results

DETOUR with O.S. Hawkins | Joshua 7: The Digression of Sin

Joshua 7: How Long Does It Take to Say I'm Sorry?

Joshua 6: I Know Joshua Six Is About a Wall, but Don’t Forget the Prostitute

Joshua 5: A Lot of Funerals in Order to Move Forward

Joshua 4: Rocks That Tell a Story

Joshua 3: The Morning Before the Miracle Can’t Be Overlooked

Joshua 2: Déjà Vu

Joshua 1: Just Three More Sleeps

Deuteronomy 34: Field Trips

Deuteronomy 33: My God With Me at 33,000 Feet

Deuteronomy 32: Learning From Sheet Music

Deuteronomy 31: So Now in Conclusion...

Deuteronomy 30: Choose Life

Deuteronomy 29: Living with Unanswered Questions

Deuteronomy 28: Thrilling and Chilling in the Same Long Chapter

Deuteronomy 27: Shouting Back and Forth Between Two Mountains

Deuteronomy 26: Retelling the Story but Skipping 40 Years

Deuteronomy 25: An Attack From the Back

Deuteronomy 24: Sounds Like Jesus

Deuteronomy 23: Refreshed Yes, Dependent No

Deuteronomy 22: Do You Know What Gravel Tastes Like?

Deuteronomy 21: I Used To Be Fearful Of This Chapter, Now I Am Grateful

Deuteronomy 20: Contagious Fear

Deuteronomy 19: A Commandment That Will Get Some Help

Deuteronomy 18: You Need Strength and Discernment to Fight the Sniffing Dog Test

Deuteronomy 17: Where Did Those Verses Come From?

Deuteronomy 16: Three Feasts to Tell One Big Story

Deuteronomy 15: Annoyed, Avoid, or Embrace

Deuteronomy 14: Count Me In for This Tithing Promise

Deuteronomy 13: A New Enemy with a Good Prefix

Deuteronomy 12: Don’t Be Curious About Darkness

Deuteronomy 11: Water by Foot or Rain from Heaven?

Deuteronomy 10: Rethinking Praise

Deuteronomy 9: Search and Rescue from Our Knees

Deuteronomy 8: Jesus and Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 7: You and Israel Exist for the Same Reason

Deuteronomy 6: A Warning to the Next Generation

Deuteronomy 5: He Added No More

Deuteronomy 4: Stop Talking in the Fire and Listen

Deuteronomy 3: Thank God for a God Who Says No

Deuteronomy 2: Choose Your Battles Wisely

Deuteronomy 1: How to Turn an 11-Day Journey into a 14,600-Day Journey

Numbers 36: Losing Ground

Numbers 35: God Loves to Speak Opposite Jericho

Numbers 34: I Have a Promise but It’s Going to Be a Fight

Numbers 33: We Have Never Seen a List Like This Before

Numbers 32: Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out

Numbers 31: A Big Gift and a Bad Ending

Numbers 30: Silence Has a Voice

Numbers 29: Regular Is So Important

Numbers 28: Seems Like a Repeat

Numbers 27: Blindsided in Prayer

Numbers 26: Renumbered

Numbers 25: When the Journey Turns Into a Camp

Numbers 24: Open My Eyes

Numbers 23: The Same Word in Different Places

Numbers 22: For Those Who Won’t Take “No” for an Answer

Numbers 21: A Snake Story Before the Greatest Verse in the Bible

Numbers 20: Don’t Be Fooled by Gushing Water

Numbers 19: I Forgot About These Two Mysterious Words

Numbers 18: Responding To Covetousness

Numbers 17: Can You Grow In The Dark?

Numbers 16: The Tassels Didn’t Help But The Sea Gull Did

Numbers 15: God Doesn’t Skip a Beat

Numbers 14: 10 Toxic People Changed the Destiny of 3 Million People

Numbers 13: 20/20 vs Binoculars

Numbers 12: The Murderer Became the Meekest Man on the Planet

Numbers 11: A Very Strange Prayer Request From a Very Godly Man

Numbers 10: Missed It!

Numbers 9: When God Moves, We Move

Numbers 8: People in the Plate

Numbers 7: Sounds Like the 12 Days of Christmas, but There Is a Reason for the Repetition

Numbers 6: What Does the New York City Skyline and Numbers 6 Have in Common?

Numbers 5: I Knew This Chapter Was Coming, and Boy, Do I Have a Story to Tell You

Numbers 4: We Have to Begin at the Right Spot and End at the Right Spot

Numbers 3: The People in the Center

Numbers 2: If the Enemy Had Drones

Numbers 1: Looking for Soldiers

Leviticus 27: Leviticus Is the Reddest Book of the Old Testament

Leviticus 26: The Chased Now Becomes the Chaser

Leviticus 25: When You Obey, God Has the Details Covered

Leviticus 24: Right in the Middle of Good Teaching, We Get an Interruption

Leviticus 23: Obeying a 3,500-Year-Old Command

Leviticus 22: The Worst Profanity I Have Ever Heard

Leviticus 21: Others May, You Cannot

Leviticus 20: A Huge Demand With an Even Bigger Promise Attached

Leviticus 19: I Am the Lord

Leviticus 18: But as for You

Leviticus 17: Life in the Blood

Leviticus 16: The Day of Atonement Needed an Upgrade

Leviticus 15: Unclean Is Contagious

Leviticus 14: What Is Horrible Can Experience a Miracle

Leviticus 13: Mistakenly Declared Dead

Leviticus 12: Their Poverty Was Prophetic

Leviticus 11: God Gives Us a Menu

Leviticus 10: Strange Fire

Leviticus 9: Enough of Teaching, It’s Time to Put It Into Practice

Leviticus 8: Should I Anoint My Home With Oil?

Leviticus 7: I Have Aspirations for My Children, but God Has a Calling for Them

Leviticus 6: Sometimes Forgiveness Has a Next Step

Leviticus 5: Finding That River Called Atonement

Leviticus 4: Stop Going in Circles

Leviticus 3: Giving God Our Best Thank You

Leviticus 2: Attention All Churches and Worship Leaders…Read the Book of Leviticus!

Leviticus 1: All on the Altar!

Exodus 40: Building With Clouds

Exodus 39: The Danger of Editing and Updating God

Exodus 38: You Never Know What You Are Building and Who It’s For

Exodus 37: Good God, the Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 36: Three Unimaginable Words I Am Going to Say One Day

Exodus 35: God Includes Us in His Projects

Exodus 34: Rewriting What You Shattered

Exodus 33: One Guy Got It

Exodus 32: The Danger of Delay

Exodus 31: Building a Structure to Last for 480 Years

Exodus 30: The Recipe for the Anointing

Exodus 29: What Does It Mean for Someone to Be Anointed?

Exodus 28: Put the Names Over Your Heart

Exodus 27: God Starts Things in the Dark

Exodus 26: The Danger of Adding Your Additions to What Has Already Been Established

Exodus 25: Where Did You Get the Gold?

Exodus 24: Uninvited

Exodus 23: Be Careful of Following Caterpillars

Exodus 22: The Spirit of the Law

Exodus 21: Pierce My Ear the Real Way

Exodus 20: You Can’t Have Rules Without Relationship

Exodus 19: Life on Wings

Exodus 18: Leadership 101

Exodus 17: Setting Precedence for the First Battle

Exodus 16: Eating the Same Thing for 40 Years, and It Wasn’t Supposed to Happen

Exodus 15: Only Three Days to Go From Singing to Complaining

Exodus 14: God Pulls an “All Nighter”

Exodus 13: How God’s People Get Ready for a New Journey

Exodus 12: It’s the Night Before Freedom

Exodus 11: No Barking Dogs

Exodus 10: A Little Help in Parenting

Exodus 9: “I Have Sinned” Actually Means “Fix My Problems”

Exodus 8: Man Will Always Try to Plagiarize God

Exodus 7: When Problems Multiply, Miracles Multiply

Exodus 6: This Chapter Always Reminds Me of Saturday Morning

Exodus 5: When the First Day on the Job Goes Really Bad

Exodus 4: An Often-Skipped Step to Head Into Your Future

Exodus 3: A West Side Story

Exodus 2: Every Parent is Fighting Two Battles: Within the House and Outside the House

Exodus 1: What Started Out as Amazing Turned Out to Be Really Awful

Genesis 50: Disobedience Makes Things Take Longer

Genesis 49: Forfeiting Your Future With Foolish Decisions

Genesis 48: The Crossover

Genesis 47: Résumé and Eulogy

Genesis 46: God Spoke to Jacob and Israel at the Same Time

Genesis 45: If It’s in the Heart, It Will Come Out of Your Mouth

Genesis 44: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over

Genesis 43: A Seating Chart That Astounded Everybody

Genesis 42: Dreams Do Come True

Genesis 41: 12 Years a Slave

Genesis 40: You Should Have Kept Your Mouth Shut

Genesis 39: Are You Potiphar or Are You Joseph?

Genesis 38: A Sad Pause in the Middle of a Great Story

Genesis 37: A Genealogy Record That Put Down Just One Name

Genesis 36: Sowing the Wrong Seed

Genesis 35: Hit List

Genesis 34: Redefining Love

Genesis 33: The Top City To Build Your Forever Home

Genesis 32: Finding Israel in an Unusual Place

Genesis 31: Difficulty is not Directional

Genesis 30: A Verse That Saved My Ministry

Genesis 29: The Deceiver Will be Deceived

Genesis 28: Don’t Look for a Different Pillow if Yours is Made of Stone

Genesis 27: Time Heals all Wounds...Really?

Genesis 26: Does This Ring a Bell?

Genesis 25: We Learn a Huge Lesson 2000 Years Later

Genesis 24: The Day I Heard Hope

Genesis 23: A Real Estate Deal That Really Wasn’t a Deal

Genesis 22: Loose Hands

Genesis 21: I Got the Promise and the Mistake Living in the Same House Together, Boy Do We Have a Problem

Genesis 20: Dishonest Truth

Genesis 19: When We Need to Be Rescued, God Sends Angels

Genesis 18: I Think He Should Have Kept Praying Instead of Stopping Short

Genesis 17: Life in Between Your Mistake and Your Miracle

Genesis 16: How Can You Believe So Deeply and Mess Up So Badly?

Genesis 15: The Covenant With a Sleeping Man

Genesis 14: Fire Snatchers

Genesis 13: Subtraction Could Mean Addition

Genesis 12: You Need Two Things for the Faith Journey

Genesis 11: If You See a Tough Childhood, Then Something Must Be Up

Genesis 10: Living Near the Border of a Downfall

Genesis 9: Hijacked!

Genesis 8: The Ending of the Flood Reminds Me of London

Genesis 7: The Most Unsuccessful Preacher in Human History

Genesis 6: There is Always Hope When It Seems Darkest

Genesis 5: Three Words to Remind You That God Doesn’t Lie

Genesis 4: The Beast at the Door

Genesis 3: The Day the Earth Got a Fourth Voice

Genesis 2: God Does Something He Has Never Done Before

Genesis 1: The Beginning

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