Tag Archives: spiritual growth

Once a nobody, always a nobody. Gideon would have done well to have remembered that. Instead, thinking he was somebody after his great victories (with which he had nothing to do), is what got him into trouble. He didn’t finish … Continue reading →

The call went out, and 32,000 showed up. A respectable turnout, but God said, No. Too many. Against 135,000 of the enemy, we would have thought the numbers needed to go the other way, but this is God we’re talking … Continue reading →

Yesterday, in a brief description of each, I featured 20 members of our Gideon’s 300 army, focusing mostly on what makes them a “ragtag militia of misfits.” In that list, I had Marti, my wife, as a “lonely leader” — … Continue reading →

We’re hardly an army More like a ragtag militia of misfits   We are nonprofessional fighters Not the highly-trained elite soldiers One is used to seeing in battle Far from the green berets — We are more like the blue … Continue reading →

One of the things over which I’ve always identified with the Gideon story is that little bit about the fleece. Gideon becomes so real at this point – not some bigger-than-life Old Testament patriarch with tons of faith doing impossible … Continue reading →

Come down off your throne and leave your body alone Somebody must change  –  Steve Winwood So it’s “So what?” time. Time to figure out what this reduction principle means in my life. What does it change about the way … Continue reading →

Someone asked how long we are going to be in the story of Gideon and my initial answer is: As long as it takes.

Think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the … Continue reading →

Do the math. Count it up. When it comes to Gideon, it’s all in the negative.