SCRIPTURE: Judges 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: WARNING – DISTURBING CONTENT!!! Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD. [Judges 20:26] How bad things were in Israel those days. It seems like we have…
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special request from Tim
Hola, there is a young boy living with us who’s name is Luis Batez. He is 14 years old and has been given an amazing opportunity to go to school. The government has offered him a scholarship in which they will pay for half of the cost of his school. The only problem is his family…
Judges 19 today
The Lord is provoking my spirit through this passage [Judges 19] with the horrors of the sex trade. What happens to the women in the passage has been going on for centuries. Its no wonder that when someone does a documentary on the child sex trade, they end up calling it, “The Day My God Died”….
how low can we go?
August 25, 2009 SCRIPTURE: Judges 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: WARNING – DISTURBING CONTENT!!! Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But to this man, don’t do such a disgraceful thing. [Judges 19:24] The last three chapters of Judges are…
help with sermon (again)
Thanks for the feedback received last week. This coming Sunday I am speaking on Mark 3! You may begin to notice that the sermon passages from now on will be the same as the reading for that Sunday in the bible reading program. This is intentional! Instead of picking a passage that I am comfortable with,…
talking with Jesus about Judges 18
You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. [John 5:39-40] As I go through the book of Judges, it becomes more evident to me that I can’t understand its message without…
in His face
SCRIPTURE: Judges 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: They continued to use the idols Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh. [Judges 18:31] This last verse summarizes the problem in Israel: the people ignored the presence of God among them (the tabernacle) and dishonoured God by worshipping idols. The first commandment, You shall have no…
twice as bad?
SCRIPTURE: Judges 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some idols and installed one of his sons as his priest. In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit. A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of…
today is Judges 16 day!
Today the Lord and I are talking through the story of Samson and Delilah, and the sad ending of his life. So much potential, wasted because of a wayward heart. Makes me think of Solomon, another example of someone who should have known better. He even wrote about it in his book of wisdom [Proverbs 5:1-23]….
ignoramus = one who does not know
SCRIPTURE: Judges 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then she called, ‘Samson, the Philistines are upon you!’ He awoke from his sleep and thought, ‘I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.’ But he did not know that the LORD had left him. [Judges 16:20] As I read this chapter, I sense in example of how not to follow the…