Judges // Pastor Gene Pensiero

Judges 16:1-3 – Open Up That Gaza Gate, Hill Of Hebron Here I Come

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 22:55:40 +0000

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

Judges 21:1-25 – You May Now Catch The Bride

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 21:00:34 +0000

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

Judges 20:1-48 – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Betrayal

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:58:58 +0000

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)

Judges 19:1-30 – An Affair To Dismember

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:51:21 +0000

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)

Judges 18:1-31 – This Land Was Your Land, This Land Is My Land

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:47:00 +0000

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)

Judges 17:1-13 – Fraudulent Priests And Where To Find Them

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 20:42:08 +0000

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

Judges 16:1-31 – The Daily Grind

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:40:27 +0000

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

Judges 15:1-20 – Shock And Jaw

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 18:05:20 +0000

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

Judges 14:1-20 – Honey Boo Boo

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:32:34 +0000

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

Judges 13:1-25 – Make Womb For Samson

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:28:21 +0000

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)

Judges 12:1-15 – Sh-ibling Rivalry

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:45:11 +0000

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)

Judges 11:29-40 – The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Mourning

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:01:52 +0000

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)

Judges 11:1-28 – Valor-Dictorian

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 19:49:54 +0000

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)

Judges 10:1-18 – Scripture Tells Me I’m Into Someone Good

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:58:59 +0000

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

Judges 9:22-57 – The Woman With The Man Crush

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:34:13 +0000

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

Judges 9:1-21 – Lord, I Was Born A Bramblin’ Man

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 19:15:37 +0000

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)

Judges 8:22-35 – The Lord of the Earrings: The Resemblance of the King

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 19:03:36 +0000

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)

Judges 8:1-21 – Hello, My Name Is Gideon. You Killed My Brothers. Prepare To Die.

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 18:55:58 +0000

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

Judges 7:16-25 – Trumpets Of Mass Destruction

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 28 May 2017 16:31:09 +0000

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

Judges 7:9-15 – The Nightmare Before Conquest

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:26:54 +0000

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)

Judges 7:1-8 – Let Lap The Dogs Of War

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Fri, 12 May 2017 21:07:30 +0000

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

Judges 6:33-40 – Do The Dew

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:12:49 +0000

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)

Judges 6:25-32 – BullDead City

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:25:53 +0000

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)

Judges 6:1-24 – The Ophrah Wartree

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 20:42:52 +0000

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

Judges 5:1-31 – I Had a Hammer And I Hammered In The Evening

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 19:30:58 +0000

Deborah and Barak sing a duet in which they praise Jael for driving a tent peg through Sisera’s skull (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Judges 4:1-24 – Bang, Bang, Jael’s Savage Hammer Came Down Upon His Head

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 19:26:39 +0000

A pagan woman named Jael kills the Canaanite captain by driving a tent peg through his head with a hammer (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Judges 3:7-31 – The Way To The King’s Hurt Is Through His Stomach

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 19:21:51 +0000

Ehud thrusts his dagger deep into the stomach of fat King Eglon then goes on to rally Israel to defeat the Moabites (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Judges 2:11-3:6 – Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Hero’s Life For Me

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:08:43 +0000

God tells the Israelites they are living like harlots when they could be living like heroes (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Judges 2:1-10 – Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:41:38 +0000

The Lord talks to the generation after Joshua’s death who refused to drive out Israel’s enemies from the Promised Land (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Judges 1:1-36 – Did You Ever Know That You’re God’s Hero?

contact@calvaryhanford.com (Calvary Hanford) — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 01:34:40 +0000

Against a backdrop of defeat, God gives a brief glimpse of the heroes He will raise-up to deliver His people (Pastor Gene Pensiero)