When people read the Bible, they may be surprised to find shocking stories of wickedness mixed with stories of great faith, sometimes in the very same people. In other words, it contains stories of people like us. Judges reports on the chaotic situation in Israel after the death of Joshua during which a series of deliverers rescued God’s people time and time again from self-inflicted problems. At the end of the book, things spiraled out of control, but this failure reveals the main point of the book. In the end, the judges could not have lasting success but were signposts pointing forward to the answer to their failures and ours.
With so much insistence in Galatians on our being right before God through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law,...
In a world full of bad news, we are all wanting to hear good news. What we usually receive is good advice, which is...
If someone hears a message but does not act upon it, sometimes we say that “it went in one ear and out the other.”...