God Still Works Through Fools Like Samson

Theology Why God Still Works Through Fools Like Samson The deeply flawed Old Testament “hero” was set apart for a very specific purpose. Fred Smith

Growing up in church as a scrawny kid, I was captured by stories of David slaying Goliath, Gideon defeating the Midianites, and especially Samson taking out 1,000 Philistines practically barehanded. While I loved the daring of those figures, I was also taught to be careful about the temptations of great champions: David’s moral failure and desperate attempts to cover it up, Gideon’s late-in-life slip into creating an idol and snare for his family, and the dramatic and colorful life of ...

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