Gideon’s Weakness and the Grace & Peace of God
We usually associate “grace and peace” with Paul’s letters but grace and peace show up in other places in scripture. One of those places is in Judges 6. Gideon was told to deliver Israel from the Midianites but Gideon is concerned because the days he lived in weren’t like the days of his ancestors. He […]
A Patriarch, A Judge and a Prophet Walk Into a Bar
I have been studying Gideon and I ran across some really interesting parallels he has with Jacob and Elijah. They all were called on by God. They all had personal encounters with God. They all built altars to the Lord Jacob and Gideon had their names changed. Gideon and Elijah had encounters with the prophets […]