Theme: This passage tells us of three judges who kept the peace in Israel between periods of trouble.

Theme: Jephthah's return to his people is a picture of God's grace to the people who rejected Him.

Theme: In the light of the Lord Jesus' High Priestly Mediatorship, the writer highlights the glories of the New Covenant.

Theme: A devotion to man-made traditions can pull us away from a relationship of love and obedience with God.

Dear pastor, our church had a split over this: 'Can a 'born again' Christian renounce his/her faith?" Answers like, "He had not been saved in the first place", seems unsatisfactory to me. Please help.

Theme: The greatest ministry that we can offer to friends, family and neighbors in their times of need is to simply bring them to Jesus.