{"id":6324,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/be-strong-and-courageous\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:13","slug":"be-strong-and-courageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/be-strong-and-courageous\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Strong and Courageous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Testament Heroes sermon series:  Joshua.<br \/>\n                                                              Joshua 1:5-9<br \/>\n                          BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS<\/p>\n<p>    I. Joshua&#8217;s background.<br \/>\n        A. His name.<br \/>\n        B. His significance.<br \/>\n        C. His daunting task.                                 1:7<\/p>\n<p>   II. The fear of failure.<br \/>\n        A. Joshua had plenty to worry about.                  7:7<br \/>\n        B. The &#8220;Imposter Phenomenon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  III. How Joshua overcame failure.<br \/>\n        A. He had an accurate assessment of himself.          3:7<br \/>\n        B. He had a strong faith in God.                      1:8; 5:13-15<br \/>\n        C. He had his priorities right.                       8:30-35<br \/>\n        D. He dared to take risks.                            Num 14:6-8<\/p>\n<p>   IV. The influence of courageous leaders.<br \/>\n        A. Courageous leaders make an impact.<br \/>\n        B. Following the leader.<\/p>\n<p>    V. Joshua&#8217;s invitation.<br \/>\n        A. All of God&#8217;s good promises came true.              23:14<br \/>\n        B. Choose whom you will serve.                        24:15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Testament Heroes sermon series: Joshua. Joshua 1:5-9 BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS I. Joshua&#8217;s background. A. His name. B. His significance. C. His daunting task. 1:7 II. The fear of failure. A. Joshua had plenty to worry about. 7:7 B. The &#8220;Imposter Phenomenon.&#8221; III. How Joshua overcame failure. A. He had an accurate assessment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1523,1522,3,1119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}