If any Bible translation captures the spirit of this passage the best, it has to be the Amplified version; But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ’s sake. Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession […]
In Those Days There Was No King In Israel
Judg 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. The last few chapters of Judges are pretty horiffic. From rape, to slaughtering to 600 forced marriages (to save the Benjaminites from extinction) it seems the verse which is repeated to explain such behaviour is […]
How Arrogant Can We Be?
I was reading the story of Samson this morning (Judges 13-16) and it initially struck me how foolish Samson was in telling Delilah the truth about his hair. He’d already lied to her 3 times before about the secret of his strength and on each of those occasions she’d attempted to deliver him over to […]