12/12/2025
Compromise(d)
Compromise is a virtue. It's how colleagues work together, it's how we stay married, how we live successfully in a pluralistic society. Compromised is completely different. The story of Gideon in Judges 6 has a ton of sermon possibilities. We all have our favorites but I never heard one about his dad... Joash. Joash is a conundrum because when Gideon destroyed Baal's altar and the Asherah pole, he did it at night because he was afraid of not only the neighbors, but his family....
Compromise is a virtue. It’s how colleagues work together, it’s how we stay married, how we live successfully in a pluralistic society. Compromised is completely different. The story of…
