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Episode 11 — Samson, Part 2: Strength Without a Soul

What happens when God raises up a deliverer…
but the deliverer looks just like everyone else?

Strong.

Gifted.

Chosen by God.

But spiritually disconnected.

That’s the story of Samson.

And it may be the most unsettling story in the entire book of Judges.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 10 – Samson: Strength Without Transformation

What happens when God raises up a deliverer…
but the deliverer looks just like everyone else?

Strong.

Gifted.

Chosen by God.

But spiritually disconnected.

That’s the story of Samson.

And it may be the most unsettling story in the entire book of Judges.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 9 – Jephthah: When We Worship the Wrong God

What happens when people use the name of God…
but no longer know who He really is?

They pray.
They worship.
They make promises to God.

But the God they imagine looks more like the gods of their culture than the God of Scripture.

That’s the tragedy we encounter in today’s story.

The story of Jephthah.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 8 – Gideon: Victory… and the Drift (Part 2)

What happens when people who once knew God slowly forget Him?

Not all at once.
Not with open rebellion.

But little compromises… quiet idols… and decisions that seem perfectly reasonable.

Welcome to the world of Judges.

The Book of Judges is the story of broken people, bad choices… and a God who refuses to walk away.

Last time we met Gideon.

A frightened man hiding in a winepress.

A man who blamed God for Israel’s suffering.

And yet a man whom God unexpectedly called a “mighty warrior.”

Today we watch what happens next.

And Gideon’s story becomes one of the most fascinating—and tragic—stories in the entire book of Judges.

Because Gideon’s life unfolds in three stages.

And those stages tell us something profound about the human heart.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 7: Gideon – The Coward in the Winepress (Part 1

Today we arrive at the central narrative of the book of Judges.

The story of Gideon.

And if Judges has been showing us the downward spiral of Israel, Gideon represents something important.

He represents Israel itself.

Weak.

Confused.

Spiritually insensitive.

Quick to blame God.

And yet… still chosen.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 6: Deborah, Barak, and the Cup of Glory

Today we come to one of the most remarkable stories in the entire book of Judges.

The story of Deborah and Barak.

And if we read it carefully, we discover that the real theme of this story is glory—the glory God delights to share with His people.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series on the book of Judges, Breaking Badly!

Imagine a nation collapsing.

Violence spreads.
Civil war erupts.
Families betray each other.
Faith disappears.

And somehow…
everyone still insists:

“We’re God’s people.”

That’s the book of Judges.

But here’s what’s shocking.

The collapse didn’t begin with war.

It began with something much quieter.

Something almost invisible.

Throughout the entire book of Judges…

Israel never goes to Shiloh.

Not once.

I will tell you why that mattered.

Welcome to Breaking Badly.

I chose a variation of the name of a very popular show back in 2008, Breaking Bad.

This is a journey through the book of Judges—

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 5: Othniel and Ehud

Today we finally arrive at the first stories of the judges themselves.

But before we jump into those stories, it helps to remember how the book of Judges is structured.

Judges is not random storytelling. It is carefully arranged narrative.

The book begins with two prologues, which explain how Israel’s spiritual collapse began.

At the end of the book there are two epilogues, which show the depth of corruption that eventually overtakes Israel—including corruption among the priesthood itself.

Between those bookends are the stories of the judges.

Twelve of them.

The number twelve is probably intentional. Just as Israel had twelve tribes, the editor seems to be saying that every tribe had an opportunity to return to Yahweh.

But they didn’t.

And one more thing to remember: these judges probably did not serve sequentially. Many of them likely ruled in different regions at the same time.

Israel was geographically fragmented, and Canaanite peoples were scattered everywhere throughout the land.

Today we look at the first two judges in the narrative.

Othniel and Ehud.

Interestingly, they are the only judges in the book specifically described as being raised up by God.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Episode 4: The Generation That Forgot

Today we arrive at the second prologue in the book of Judges.

The structure of Judges is fascinating.

The book begins with two prologues, which set up the problem.

Then come the stories of the judges themselves.

And finally the book ends with two epilogues, which show just how badly Israel ultimately breaks.

Today’s passage explains how the unraveling begins.

And now, it’s your turn…

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Welcome to Gospel Rant, and our new series, Breaking Badly!

Welcome back to Breaking Badly, our journey through one of the darkest—and most honest—books in the Bible: the book of Judges.

The Seven Nations

Over the centuries, powerful nations had filled the land.

Seven of them.

Each one militarily stronger than Israel.

Each one capable of tossing Israel around the ancient Near Eastern sandbox without much trouble.

But something remarkable had happened.

The Celestial Judge—the God of heaven and earth—had declared these nations guilty of rebellion against Him.

Guilty of what we might call cosmic treason.

And the sentence had been pronounced.

Judgment.

And then came the surprise.

Instead of executing that judgment Himself, God assigned Israel to carry it out.

Which, frankly, seems like a strange choice.

Because Israel wasn’t exactly a model nation.

They were also guilty of rebellion.

We will see what you think.

And now, it’s your turn…

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