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Joshua 5:13-15 | Worthy of Worship | Alex Culpepper
What do you do when you run out of answers?
In Joshua 5, Joshua stands outside Jericho, a city of walls upon walls that Israel has no way to take. He lifts up his eyes, and a man with a drawn sword stands before him. “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” Joshua asks. “No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come.” Joshua falls on his face in worship and is told, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.”
In this message, we see that God's address is at the end of your rope. When we look up, God changes not only what we see but how we see. The commander takes no sides; he calls Joshua to fall in line with the Lord's plans. That is repentance: not condemnation, but a gracious invitation from the King of the universe to see things His way. Like the disciples on the Emmaus road, we see Jesus here and say, “That's my King.”
Holy ground comes before the next step. The One who commands the armies of heaven took on flesh, died in our place, and now says, “I have called you friends.” Whatever you are coming out of or heading into, worship Him and expect Him to meet you.
Passage: Joshua 5:13–15
Series: Joshua
Sermon: Worthy of Worship
18 Oct 2026
Joshua 5:1-12 | Identity Matters | Alex Culpepper
What lies have you believed about who you are?
In Joshua 5, Israel has just crossed the Jordan into the promised land, but before they take a single step forward, God tells them to stop. The generation born in the wilderness never received the mark of the covenant, never kept the Passover, and had eaten nothing but manna for forty years. So God has Joshua circumcise them, they rest in the camp until they are healed, and they keep the Passover at Gilgal. Then the manna stops, and they eat the fruit of the land. “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.”
In this message, we see that people can be set free and still not know how to live free. Like long-term prisoners struggling to adjust to life outside, this generation had left Egypt but was still living like captives. Our world promises absolute freedom, yet so many of us are enslaved to anxiety, addiction, and loneliness because nothing is telling us the truth about who we are. Again and again, God contends for His people’s identity and tells them whose they are.
For us, the cross is our freedom and our identity marker. Jesus bore our griefs, carried our sorrows, and was pierced for our transgressions, so that by His knowledge many would be “accounted righteous.” As we name the lies we have believed, confess them, and receive the truth of who Jesus says we are, He changes us from the inside out and makes us a formidable foe against the powers of darkness.
Passage: Joshua 5:1–12
Series: Joshua
Sermon: Identity Matters
11 Oct 2026
Joshua 4:1-24 | Remember | Don Romano
What are you leaving behind for the generations who come after you?
In Joshua 4, Israel has crossed the Jordan on dry ground, and God commands twelve men, one from each tribe, to carry twelve stones out of the riverbed, which Joshua sets up at Gilgal. Those stones are a lasting sign: “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’” God’s people will tell them what the Lord has done, “so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty.”
In this message, we see how easy it is to be dazzled by a great story and still miss the point. Israel was not impressive; God in their midst was. We are called to remember His faithfulness, to pass that story on to our children and grandchildren, and to build something that points beyond ourselves to Him.
And Jesus has left His own monument: us. As living stones, His people carry His presence into the world. The Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, so that when people encounter us, they can have a radical encounter with the living God.
Passage: Joshua 4:1–24
Series: Joshua
Sermon: Remember
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