Right In the Eye
The Book of Judges
Nobody's That Stupid
October 23, 2016 • Chris Edmondson • Judges 21:25, Judges 14:1–3, Judges 16:4–21, 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
Chances are your greatest regret can be traced back to a decision where your body wanted something that your heart knew was wrong. An appetite was raging. You saw something or someone you wanted—even though he, she, or it wasn’t healthy for you. But you gave in to your body anyway. You yielded to the little kings that want to replace the Creator King who calls you to live from the inside out. What do you do when your body wants what your heart knows is wrong?
Like Everybody Else
October 16, 2016 • Chris Edmondson • Judges 21:25, Joshua 23:12–13, Joshua 24:23, Psalm 119:35–37
You think you want to be like everybody else. But everybody else takes their cues from everybody else. Being like everybody else just makes you average—worried, in debt, bored, and dissatisfied with what you have. If you knew that living like everybody else on the outside would leave you feeling like this on the inside, you would have done what you suspected was right in your heart instead of doing what was right in your own eyes.
One King Leads to Another
October 9, 2016 • Dave Thompson • Judges 2:11–15, Judges 3:8, Judges 21:25, Joshua 24:14–21
The bottom line, the kind of thing that’s driving our time together around this series, is we’re looking at sort of like the underbelly of the American Dream, sort of that unspoken part of the American Dream that goes like this, “I wanna do what I wanna do. I wanna do what I want when I want with whom I want. I wanna do what I want, when I want, with whom I want”. And then there is a little footnote, there’s some fine print, right? And in the fine print, because we’re a civilized society, we say, “I wanna do what I want when I want with whom I want as long as it doesn’t…hurt anyone.
Black, White, and Shades of Gray
October 2, 2016 • Chris Edmondson • Judges 20:1, Judges 21:25, Judges 19:22–30
There’s an unstated part of the American dream. It goes like this: “We have the freedom to do what we want, when we want, with whom we want, and nobody can tell us what to do…as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody.” But what if life doesn’t work that way? What if you can’t do what’s right in your own eyes without eventually hurting someone?