S4:060 Judges 5-8
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Why does God indulge Gideon's constant doubting? What's this about a female judge? Today Emma Dotter is joined by Watermark member Ben Brown to examine Gideon and Deborah's life and faith in Judges 5-8. The fleece was not just about Gideon testing God's power but questioning God's presence. Faith isn't about having all the answers but trusting the One who does. Gideon and Deborah's stories reminds us that though God's choices may not always make logical sense to us, God shows his grace and power using imperfect people.
Additional Scriptures Referenced:
Matthew 12:38-42 – sign for what God has already done
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. |
| 0:04.5 | You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:09.1 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:10.2 | Today, we are reading Judges 5 through 8, and I am in the podcast studio with faithful watermark member, Ben Brown. |
| 0:17.6 | What's up, Emma? |
| 0:18.5 | Ben, so good to have you here. |
| 0:20.1 | We both work here together, but I feel like we haven't gotten to spend much time together. |
| 0:24.6 | No, not a ton of overlap. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah, so I'm excited to get to know you better, and I'm sure our listeners are as well. |
| 0:30.8 | Would you share just a little bit about what God's done in your life and what you're up to today? |
| 0:35.0 | I'd love to. So I'm an Arkansas kid, so born and raised |
| 0:38.9 | in northeast Arkansas. And so anyone who's been to Arkansas knows it's not the fun side of the state. |
| 0:44.7 | Oh, really? I would, I didn't know that. Yep, no, more farmlands, less rolling hills. Okay. |
| 0:50.5 | But then went to the University of Arkansas, the fun side of the state, where I met my wife, Lainey, and then moved to Dallas after graduating in 2022, where I did corporate trade shows for about a year. |
| 1:04.2 | I didn't know what a trade show was when I took the job, but I knew I liked events from being in a Christian fraternity in Arkansas. |
| 1:10.7 | And then shortly after that, did the Watermark Institute and then hopped on staff after that. |
| 1:16.5 | But truly seeing the Lord's kindness every step of the way throughout my life. |
| 1:21.4 | And he really is good and true and constant. |
| 1:25.6 | Amen. |
| 1:26.6 | Ben, how would you maybe connect today's reading with your story, |
| 1:30.9 | or how does today's reading intersect with what you've experienced personally? Yeah, for sure. |
| 1:36.0 | I think, as we're talking about Gideon today, I think it's pretty easy for us to look at someone like Gideon |
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