Disqualified: Gideon, Part 2

We are smack in the middle of convention season during an election year, which means our nation’s political parties are feverishly working to gather a...

Disqualified: Gideon

Uncertainty is unavoidable. Our lives are so complex and so dependent on the decisions of others that any notion that we are in complete control is...

Disqualified: Team Deborah, Barak, Jael

Freedom seemed like an impossible dream. Israel had been “oppressed cruelly” for 20 years (Judges 4:3). It was so bad that the people were afraid to e...

Disqualified: Shamgar

Sometimes, the book of Judges makes me wince. The accounts of rotten human behavior make me wonder, “How did this make it into the Bible??” And, like ...