By David Faust These questions coordinate with Engage Your Faith and This Week with the Word. Sunday School Lesson Text: Exodus 3:1-12 1. Have you ever tried to avoid God’s call by offering excuses? In response to God’s call, do you tend ask, “Who am I?” Or do you remember the character and power of […]
By David Faust Samson had it all. He was part athlete, part playboy, part warrior, and partly a man of God. His name is synonymous with extraordinary feats of strength and an outside-the-boundaries lifestyle. He tangled with lions, battled with Philistines, pursued beautiful women, and bantered with party guests. Long before someone coined the phrase, […]
By David Faust These questions coordinate with Engage Your Faith and This Week with the Word. Sunday School Lesson Text Judges 13:1-7, 24, 25 1. What do you think were Samson’s greatest strengths? his greatest weaknesses? 2. Does anyone you know today make you think of Samson? Do you see yourself in any of his […]
By Dr. Mark Scott I do not like Samson. Like Esau, he was a sensualist (Hebrews 12:16, 17). He lived by his glands instead of his God. He was a playboy. The Samson narrative in Judges (chapters 13-16) is filled with rebellion, sexual immorality, anger, revenge, disappointment, heartache, and a glimmer of hope. That being […]
By Dr. Mark Scott In the book of Judges, the judges get progressively worse as we go along. We’ve gone from Deborah and Barak (good) to Gideon (all right) to Jephthah (not stunning) and next week to Samson (terrible). The enemies of Israel in our lessons also get progressively worse, from the Canaanites to the […]
