This sermon was first preached March 20, 1977 United Methodist Churches, Orfordville and Evansville, Wisconsin.  All these sermons have been preached multiple times for many different congregations.  The notes above indicate where and when it was preached for the first time.

Purpose: To help us realize that it is essential to recognize the close of one age before we can take advantage of the new.  The text for this sermon is Joshua 5:12: "And the manna ceased on the marrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

This sermon is taken from the book "The Holy Ground of Honey Creek: Reflections of a Small-Town Pastor" written by Rev. I. Dean Jordan.  This is a collection of essays, sermons and liturgy written and preached by Rev. Jordan during his ministry from 1950 to 1988.