If you're interested in learning more about the life of Samson, here's a link to a sermon series from three years ago:https://sermons.logos.com/series/101683-samson...  Read More

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Today's Reading: Judges 16:1-31Once again, Samson's weakness for women gets him in trouble. But this time, he violates the Nazirite vow that he had carried out since his birth and God's spirit leaves him and he loses all his strength. This should serve as a reminder that we all have weaknesses and if we don't turn them over to God and take steps to keep them from becoming a lifestyle, they will ev...  Read More

Today's Reading: Judges 15:1-20During this period of his life Samson is used by God to defeat the Philistines. Once again we see that he is empowered by the Holy Spirit to do feats of great strength. We also se Samson calling on the Lord here. He acknowledges that it is God who has enabled him to carry out the salvation of God's people from the Philistines.When something good happens in your life ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Judges 14:1-20This chapter reveals the tension in Samson's life. On one hand, he seeks only to satisfy his own desires, even when that violates God's commands. So he seeks a wife from among the Philistines saying "she is right in my eyes", even though God had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with the surrounding nations. But in spite of that, God still chooses to use Sam...  Read More

Today's Reading: Judges 13:1-25For the next few days we'll be reading the account of Samson, who is undoubtedly the most well known of all the judges of Israel.Here in this chapter we have an appearance of "the angel of the Lord". Most Bible scholars believe, and I agree, that when that phrase is used in the Old Testament it is "Christophany", or pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus. (Note: This is o...  Read More

Today's Reading: Joshua 2:1-23The book of Judges covers the time period from the conquest of the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua until the kingdom is established. The "judges" are not the same kind of judicial officials that we are familiar with, but rather military leaders raised up by God to deliver Israel from their enemies.There is a repeated cycle throughout the book: Once the ge...  Read More

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Today's Reading: Joshua 24:1-33Before his death, Joshua summons all the people and exhorts them to abandon all other gods and serve the Lord alone. The people promise to do that, even after Joshua warns them that they are incapable of doing that. So Israel renews their covenant with God. And until Joshua died, they generally kept their word. But as we'll see in the coming days, that didn't last fo...  Read More

Today's Reading: Joshua 6:1-27The Lord gives the city of Jericho to the Israelites in a very unique and unusual way. God had never worked this way in the past and He doesn't do it again in the future. A couple thoughts come to mind here:Sometimes God calls us to act in ways that don't make any sense to us. That is always an opportunity for us to trust God and obey Him even when we don't understand...  Read More

Today's Reading: Joshua 1:1-18Moses has died and God appoints Joshua to take his place. God commands Joshua to be "strong and courageous" three times in this passage. But God only gives that command after He has promised to be with Joshua and never leave him or forsake him. God also instructs Joshua that the way he will be prosperous and successful is to continually meditate on the law with the in...  Read More