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Pressing on, Finishing Well: Learning from Seven Biblical Characters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Our lives are finite. There is a date and time when they will come to an end. But with people living longer, many of us will have a number of years where our professional work is done, our children are grown, and our schedules are more flexible. Will we spend these last days pressing on towards the finishing line, keeping our eyes on the prize, like Caleb and Paul? Or will our hearts be...

Caleb was born at the end of Israel’s captivity in Egypt. Having come to Egypt during the great famine in the Middle East, and being received warmly by Pharaoh because of Joseph’s plans to save Egypt, Israel is ultimately enslaved by the Egyptians, a situation that lasts 400 years. Caleb was born near the end of those 400 years. He lived as a slave for 40 years. We know nothing about him during this time but, obviously, he suffered deprivation and a loss of freedom under
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