August 8, 2023 — Collapsing Like Dagon’s Temple

These last chapters show how Israel discovers what’s wrong with doing what’s right in your own eyes. We’ve seen the rot of the judgeship under Samson, whose two outstanding characteristics were physical strength and moral weakness. We’ve begun to see the Levitical system corrupted, with Micah’s rent-a-priest (it gets much worse). We’ll also observe the […]

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August 4, 2023 — Bringing Down The House

How many struggling saints have found hope in Samson’s final prayer, “just this once, O God” (Jdg 16:28). From the last chapter in Samson’s life, the saying was framed, “Oh, the binding, blinding, grinding consequences of sin.” Here they are: “The Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza. […]

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August 3, 2023 — Dripping & Snipping

“A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping” (Prov 19:13). “It happened! I don’t know how—it just happened!” Do you ever hear explanations like that? That’s how our next episode begins. “Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, […]

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