Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer,

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor, author, and theologian, J.D. Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.

You know, the Bible is filled with fascinating stories about heroes, and villains, real

life descriptions of men and women who struggled just as we do.

Did you know that these stories aren't intended just to teach us moral lessons or simply

to entertain us?

They're ultimately designed to point us to the person and the work of God the Father

and has son Jesus Christ.

Today on Summit Life, Pastor J.D. invites us to look at one of the most familiar characters

in the Old Testament.

His life teaches us that God can accomplish amazing things through ordinary people when

they finally submit to his leadership.

If you'd like to follow along with the transcript of each message, you can find them free of

charge at jdcreer.com.

So let's get started, Pastor J.D. Greer titled, Today's Message, When the Week Became Strong.

Judges, chapter 13, as we move through our series here in the book of Judges, we come

to one of the most interesting stories in the Bible.

Maybe one of the most well-known stories in the Bible, and that is the story of Samson.

Now, when I say the word Samson, what do you think of?

40 years ago, psychologists developed these things called word association games to the

idea was they could identify your subconscious thought patterns by figuring out what word

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