Connecting With People of the Bible-Samson – A Man of Great Strength and Weakness
Samson – A Man of Great Strength and Weakness SERIES: Connecting With People of the Bible PREACHER: The Rev. Lenin Kumar DATE: March 17, 2019 SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Judges 13-16 When I was a kid—back in the days when they only cost twelve rupees, I loved comic books. I remember there was an AD like this on the back of most issues. As you can see, it challenged 67 kg weaklings like myself by claiming we could have a physique like Charles Atlas—and the super-human strength to match it. I sent in my ₹900 and you can see the amazing results! All kidding aside, this week I googled Charles Atlas and found out that he was born in Italy in 1903 and immigrated to the US when he was 10. His real name was Angelo Siciliano and he was your typical 97 lb weakling—skinny and slop-shouldered, feeble and often ill. Angelo’s puny physiqu...