CONTENTS About the Straight to the Heart Series 9 Introduction: The God Who Keeps on Giving 11 JOSHUA 1-12: GOD'S GIFT TO HIS PEOPLE Step Forward (Joshua 1:1-18) 16 Unreasonable (Joshua 2:1-24) 21 Believing Is Seeing (Joshua 3:1-17) 25 Stones (Joshua 4:1-24) 29 Whose Side Are You On? (Joshua 5:1-15) 33 Blood on the Walls (Joshua 6:1-20) 37 Genocide (Joshua 6:21-27) 41 Trading Places (Joshua 6:22-7:26) 45 Presumption (Joshua 7:1-8:35) 49 Too Busy for God (Joshua 9:1-27) 54 The Day the Sun Stood Still (Joshua 10:1-15) 58 Things Go South (Joshua 10:16-43) 62 Hard Northerners (Joshua 11:1-20) 66 Go and Get Your Land (Joshua 11:21-12:24) 70 JOSHUA 13-24: GOD'S GIFT TO EACH OF US Let's Get Personal (Joshua 13:1-19:51) 76 Perhaps (Joshua 14:6-15) 80 A Woman's Job (Joshua 15:13-19 and 17:3-6) 84 Not a Christian Word (Joshua 17:12-13) 88 Greener Grass (Joshua 17:14-18) 92 The Accursed (Joshua 20:1-21:42) 97 Long-Distance Relationship (Joshua 21:43-22:34) 101 Final Warning (Joshua 23:1-16) 105 Success and Succession (Joshua 24:1-33) 109 A Dying Man to Dying Men (Joshua 24:1-33) 113 JUDGES: GOD'S GIFT TO SINNERS Backwards (Judges 1:1-2:5) 118 Director's Chair (Judges 2:6-3:6) 122 Secret Weapon (Judges 3:7-11) 126 The Impossible (Judges 3:12-31) 130 The Stomach of a Judge (Judges 4:1-24) 135 We Fall Apart (Judges 5:1-31) 139 Milk and Honey (Judges 5:24-31) 144 Ignorance Is Not Bliss (Judges 6:1-13) 149 How the Light Gets In (Judges 6:11-40) 153 Coming on Too Strong (Judges 6:33-7:8) 157 One Day (Judges 7:9-22) 161 The Plod (Judges 7:23-8:21) 166 The King of Israel (Judges 8:22-9:57) 171 The Dirty Dozen (Judges 10:1-11:29) 175 Selective Reading (Judges 11:12-40) 180 Louder Than Words (Judges 12:1-15) 185 The Great Deliverer (Judges 13:1-25) 189 Strike One (Judges 14:1-9) 194 Strike Two (Judges 14:10-20) 198 Strike Three (Judges 15:1-20) 202 You're Out (Judges 16:1-19) 206 Alone (Judges 16:20-21) 210 Resurrection Power (Judges 16:22-31) 215 The Back of the Book (Judges 17:1-13) 219 Settlers (Judges 18:1-31) 223 Newsflash (Judges 19:1-20:48) 228 The Great Saviour (Judges 21:1-25) 232 RUTH: GOD'S GIFT TO YOU Fruitless (Ruth 1:1-5) 238 The Prodigal Daughter (Ruth 1:6-22) 242 The Outsider (Ruth 2:1-18) 246 The Guardian (Ruth 2:19-23) 250 It's Your Move (Ruth 3:1-9) 254 The Avengers Assemble (Ruth 3:10-4:12) 258 Surprise Ending (Ruth 4:11-22) 262 Conclusion: The God Who Keeps on Giving 266.