A strange little parable from Judges 9 wouldn’t leave us alone: trees asking for a king, the olive, fig, and vine declining, and a bramble stepping up with threats and empty shade. We followed that thread through Abimelech’s bloody grab for power—funded by seventy pieces of silver and judged by a falling millstone—and asked what it says about leadership today in government and the church. The picture is uncomfortably clear: when producers avoid service, brambles rush in, soak up resources, an...
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