enterprises genuinely dedicated to the Lord, we are not as easily caught up in superficial evaluation standards. Second in achieving success on God’s terms, obey the Lord. Joshua, in this farewell address, urged the people, “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left” (v. 6). As preachers, we have the privilege of sharing our own odyssey of endeavoring to obey the Lord. I shared with
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