Managing on our own

Memorial in Newtown, Connecticut (guardian.co.uk)“This is just terrible,” said a friend one evening at our housegroup Bible study. “How can you read this?” We were studying the book of Judges and we had reached one of the many unsavoury descriptions it contains of the slaughter that went on during that period. “What is all that about?” he continued, “How can I get anything helpful from that?” He was still shaking his head in disbelief at the end of the evening, but if we were holding that stu...