Hear Professor Michael Kelly on Joshua 11:1-9
Our dear friend and beloved teacher Mike Kelly, Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, recently gave a chapel talk on Joshua 11:1-9.
Joshua 11:1-9 depicts the final battle of the conquest campaign in the book of Joshua. This chapter presents the alliance of northern kings in familiar terms echoing other biblical narratives, to make a significant theological point. This chapel talk explores the faithfulness of God in keeping his promises, even in the face of our enemy “throwing everything he has” against us. God demonstrates his faithfulness in the face of such enemy opposition primarily by raising from the dead our Lord Jesus, against whom our enemy “threw everything he had.”
Mike’s family and ours have both felt that the enemy was throwing “everything he had” at us with recent deaths to folks very near to us. In this chapel talk, Mike is sharing from deep within his heart about what it really means to know God’s faithfulness at such times. Listen here (click to stream or right-click and save to download).
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March 21st, 2007 at 9:33 am
Hey Mark,
Thanks for posting this! I loved that sermon! But slight correction: in one part you call it Joshua 11:1-9, which is correct, but in another paragraph, and in the title of the post, you said it was from Judges 11.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:23 am
My former sixth grade students would so crack up at that error. They all knew that Mr. T. could never keep all the students with “J” names straight. After a while when I looked at Joel but called him Jared, Joel gave up on correcting me and just answered the question.
Come to think of it….didn’t I do the same on your birthday once? (In the original version of that post I proclaimed “Happy Birthday, Justin!” and then proceeded to call him Jason throughout the rest of the post.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Mark, the link to Mike’s info at the WTS website is broken (asks for a username and password). Needs to include the www in there.
Andy the WTS IT dude.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Hmmm, Andy, works for me. I copied the URL straight from the WTS website.
If it doesn’t work for you from my site, go to the Westminster home page (www.wts.edu) and it is posted there (for now).
March 21st, 2007 at 9:59 pm
I just streamed it by clicking on your link, Mark, and listened. Had a little problem on the first try, but the second worked fine. It was a wonderful message, and spoke directly to some current struggles facing my family. Many thanks, Mike.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Mark,
I figured out my problem is with the wts website coding itself and accessing the site from on campus here.
I’m sure most readers won’t be effected but if they can’t access this from campus they should try from home until we get it fixed.
Andy
April 4th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Andy,
Thanks for figuring that out!