Category: 2025
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Day 094: The Nazirite and the Nazarene (Judges 13-15)
Samson and Jesus could not be more different. And yet, in one surprising sense, Samson still points us to Christ: a promised son, announced before birth, who would begin to save God’s people.
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Day 093: Knowing the Bible but Missing God (Judges 11:30-31)
Jephthah knew Israel’s story better than most of the people in Judges, yet he still missed the heart of God in a devastating way.
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Day 089: Making Sense of the Cycles in Judges (Judges 1-2)
The book of Judges is thrilling, violent, tragic, and painfully repetitive. But Judges is not just Israel’s sin. It is God’s mercy.
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Rethinking Graphic Easter Sermons
Why do so many Easter sermons, pageants, and films linger over the gore of the crucifixion when the Gospels themselves are so restrained? The cross was undeniably brutal. But the Evangelists seem far more interested in its meaning than in its mechanics.
