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 an illusion. Think about driving a car–no matter how carefu...
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 even go out onto the main roads (Judges 5:6). The oppressors ...
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 a piece of rotting fruit, the stories keep getting worse and...
Kingdom Fighting: Stories of Hope
The bitter, broken heart is a foreclosure of the soul empty of hope.
There are times we look at life and its chaos, pain and problems and we are tempted to lose hope.
We do not hold on to hope as much as ...