Sermons

And each tribe has its own hero stories. Read the book of Judges with a notepad some rainy afternoon and mark down the tribal references. They’re all in there somewhere. Sometimes it’s stories about the heroism of entire tribes- like Judah or Simeon. Sometimes it’s about specific heroes. Ehud of the tribe of Benjamin. Deborah of Ephraim and her general Barak of Naphtali and Zebulon. There was Gideon who led the troops of Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali and invented the Molotov cocktail. Speaking of bombs, do you remember Gilead and it’s problematic hero Jephthah? Tola of Issachar? Certainly Samson of the tribe of Dan? Maybe today we only remember two or three any more.
It is important that tribes have heroes. Spin those inspiring stories together into an expanded kinship network and it wove a nation together. Join them with the favorite hero stories of united Israel- the stories of Moses and Joshua, and then tell of the greatest hero- David, who just happens to be your king now… History or his story? It doesn’t matter- it’s our story! For better or worse.

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