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Her husband’s death began a period of transition for Nora. She took over his hardware business and cared for their three children on her own. “Be strong,” friends often told her. But what does that mean? she’d think. That I must deliver without fail in my responsibilities?

God gave great responsibilities to Othniel in a time of transition for the people of Israel. As discipline for the nation’s idolatry, God had given them “into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim . . . to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years” (Judges 3:8). Under the cruel king of Mesopotamia, the Israelites “cried out to the Lord,” and “he raised up for them a deliverer” (v. 9)—Othniel, whose name means “God’s strength.”

As the first judge of Israel, Othniel had no predecessor to help him. This military leader had to guide the Israelites back to living out their covenant relationship with God and defend them from their enemies. But because “the Spirit of the Lord came on him” (v. 10), he succeeded. With God’s strength sustaining Othniel’s leadership, “the land had peace for forty years, until [he] died” (v. 11).

How can we truly “be strong”? It’s by knowing we’re not strong and by trusting God to give us His strength. His “grace is sufficient for [us], for [His] power is made perfect in weaknes

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Segment 1:

• Kirk’s assassination sparked memes and laughter—proof of hollowed-out consciences.

• “Demons among us” isn’t metaphorical—darkness rules when life is mocked.

• Redemption through Christ, not politics, is the only cure for such depravity.

Segment 2:

• Culture sets standards low—and behavior sinks even lower.

• Mandates, laws, and culture shifts can’t fix broken hearts.

• Only heart transformation raises behavior and restores dignity.

Segment 3:

• Attacks on penal substitution are assaults on forgiveness itself.

• PSA: Christ bore our punishment as our substitute—without it, no salvation.

• Critics dismiss it as “cosmic child abuse,” but Scripture repeatedly affirms it.

Segment 4:

• Denying PSA guts the meaning of the cross.

• Alternative atonement models may explain effects, but not the cause.

• With PSA, the cross is God’s greatest act of love AND justice—without it, just sentiment.

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