Series: Hear The Call

Who is your leader? Not at work, or school, or home… but over your whole life? Who do you look to for wisdom and warnings about how to live your life? As we finish our three-week series in the Old Testament book of Judges, we’ll see how this dark season in Israel’s history ended with a movement away from God, not toward God. We’ll see what their story can teach us about keeping our hearts and minds open to God’s loving leadership of our lives.

Someone once said: “Knowledge is learning from your mistakes; wisdom is learning from other people’s mistakes.” This week in our series from the Old Testament book of Judges, we’ll explore the story of one of the Bible most tragic leaders – Samson. We’ll discover that it is better to follow God’s desires, than our own… and we should live with the end of our story in the front of our minds.

What does it mean to be “called” by God? We sometimes have this image in our minds that people who are called by God have a heroic certainty about their calling, make big decisions all by themselves… and are impervious to big mistakes. But the stories of the Bible give us a different picture. As begin our three-week series in the Old Testament book of Judges, we’ll look at one of the most celebrated female leaders in the Bible – Deborah. Through her story, we’ll see how God brings us not only his presence in all the details of our lives, but also the people we need so we don’t have to face life’s battle alone.