Phil Moore 
Straight to the Heart of Joshua, Judges and Ruth 
60 bite-sized insights

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 & 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