The Land Had Rest from War
A 30-Day Devotional Through the Book of Joshua for Veterans, Service Members, and Military Families
by Nicholas Dailey
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The book of Joshua begins with a death and a river at flood stage. It ends with soldiers sent home with a blessing: "All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day" (Joshua 22:3). In between are some of the hardest chapters in the Bible, and some of the most hopeful.
The Land Had Rest from War is a 30-day devotional through the book of Joshua for veterans, service members, and military families. Along the way you'll follow Virgil, a 79-year-old Marine who came home from Vietnam, drank for eleven years, and has been sober since 1979, and Brady, a 31-year-old Army infantry veteran of two Afghanistan tours who is three years out and still checking the locks at three in the morning. Their year runs from one Veterans Day to the next in a small Tennessee river town, and their conversations lead into each day's Scripture, reflection, and practice.
Inside
- Arise and Cross Over: "Moses My servant is dead," be strong and courageous, the eastern tribes who fought for their brothers, and Rahab's scarlet cord
- Twelve Stones: the priests' feet in the flooded Jordan, stones carried out of the riverbed, "when your children ask," and the commander who answered "Neither"
- Walls and Ruins: silence at Jericho, Rahab's place in Israel, Achan's hidden sin, the Valley of Achor as a gateway of hope, and going up again
- The Hard Chapters: a treaty made without prayer, the day the sun stood still, the conquest texts read honestly, seven days outside the camp, and rest from war
Format: PDF, 6 × 9 in layout with clickable contents
Written with the assistance of AI writing tools, under the author's direction.
