400: Walking Circles Around Jericho

The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Talk Radio

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today’s episode brings us to a familiar story in the Bible. Maybe you’ve sung the old song about Joshua fighting the battle of Jericho. But this story is about more than the Hebrews defeating the Canaanites. This is a story about fighting from a place of victory to defeat the strongholds in your life.

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0:00.0	Max Lakato here with a thought or two about my book about thoughts.
0:04.5	Tame your thoughts.
0:06.0	Did you know we have over 70,000 of them each day?
0:10.2	And maybe your thoughts are, well, maybe they're getting the best of you.
0:14.6	Well, God has not left you alone in this battle of the mind.
0:19.4	In fact, in this book, I unpack three tools to help you renew your
0:23.9	mind and transform your life. You can learn more about tame your thoughts at maxlocato.com
0:32.1	slash tame your thoughts.
0:36.9	Access more.
0:41.0	Hello, friend.
0:42.6	This is Max Lakato.
0:44.4	Thanks for tuning in.
0:46.0	It's an honor to be with you.
0:47.9	As we study God's word together, may our time uplift and encourage you. If you could use some hope, I pray you find it
0:57.5	here today.
1:07.5	I want to take just a couple of minutes before I begin our message on Jericho to talk to you about a question that always surfaces anytime any of us study the book of Joshua.
1:18.2	And that has to do with the destruction of the Canaanites.
1:22.3	The book of Joshua is a bloody book. It does no good to pretend it isn't.
1:27.1	Not only is something evil happening,
1:29.8	the killing of large hordes of people, but that evil is happening to women, children,
1:36.1	even animals. It's a difficult thought. And for many readers, this violence is a barrier to
1:42.5	studying Joshua or to even understanding the character
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