Stephen Chandler: Taking a Wise Risk

One of my favorite stories in Scripture is found in 1 Samuel 14. The Israelites found themselves at war—again—with the Philistines,  and it wasn’t going well.  The biggest challenge was a shortage of weapons. Only King Saul and his son Jonathan had swords, which made going into battle tricky. Even if everyone had had a sword, however, they were also vastly outnumbered.  Saul and his six hundred fighting men were camped out, trying to decide what to do, while the Philistines waited with “three th