Samson destroys the Gaza gates and demonstrates the awesome power of God. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

After their civil war, the Israelites devise plans for kidnapping brides for the 600 men of the tribe of Benjamin (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

When the Israelites unite to discipline the wicked men of Gibeah, the tribe of Benjamin breaks ranks and defends them, precipitating a bloody civil war (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

To save himself, a Levite delivers his concubine to a mob to be sexually assaulted, then dismembers her body and sends one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The tribe of Dan abandons the conquest of their own allotted territory and instead conquers the land of Laish by murdering its peaceful inhabitants (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Micah appoints his own disqualified son, then an unqualified Levite, to be his household priest (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

No longer endued with God’s Spirit, Samson is captured, blinded, and sentenced to grinding meal in a Philistine prison (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

With a sudden spectacular use of force, Samson kills one thousand Philistine soldiers using only the jawbone of a donkey (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Samson breaks his Nazirite vow when he scoops honey from the carcass of the lion he previously killed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Manoah and his barren wife are promised a son and are instructed that he is to be a Nazirite from the womb (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Because in their dialect they could not pronounce the SH sound, the men of Ephraim were identified and killed by fellow Israelites as they attempted to retreat (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jephthah’s daughter and her girlfriends retreat to the hills for two months to mourn her father’s foolish vow to offer her life as a sacrifice (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Israel’s next hero, Jephthah, is “a mighty man of valor” who gives a speech about peace before engaging in open conflict (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God’s pursuit of His backslidden people illustrates for us that He is good (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Abimelech comes to a dishonorable but fitting end as a woman drops a millstone on his head that crushes his skull (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Gideon’s youngest son tells a fable to the men of Shechem that personifies his evil half-brother, Abimelech, as a bramble bush (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Gideon refuses to be made king, but from the moment he accepts plundered earrings from the men of Israel as tribute, he begins to act as their king (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Gideon reveals that the two kings he has defeated and captured are the men who murdered his brothers (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Gideon tells his three hundred man army to simultaneously blow their trumpets at his signal (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God sends Gideon down to the enemy camp where he overhears two Midianites discussing a prophetic dream in which they are conquered by the Israelites (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

God selects 300 men who lap-up water like dogs to be Gideon’s soldiers (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Gideon puts God to a test by asking Him to manipulate the amount of dew that is on a fleece of wool each morning (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The Angel of the Lord instructs Gideon to use his father’s bull to demolish the altar of Baal, then sacrifice it on an altar he’d build for Jehovah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Gideon’s war against the Midianites is foretold by the Angel of the Lord while sitting under the tree at Ophrah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)