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Oct 2025
40m 32s

How Sin Makes Us Vandals

TIM KELLER
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The story in Judges 17 is not interesting. It’s a bunch of trivial people doing kind of dumb, weird things. Micah robs his mother, but then he gives the money back. Then his mother cheats God. Then Micah hires a Levite, and then Danites hire the Levite instead. What’s the point?  On the one hand, this is terrible storytelling. Why was this incident chosen ou ... Show More
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