The Mighty Warrior — Inspired by Gideon (Judges 6-7)

Some nights you stand at the top of a hill, look down at the thing you have to walk into, and feel about the size of a pebble. Trey knows that feeling. Tomorrow he starts a new school.

So his dad tells him about Gideon.

Gideon was hiding in a winepress, the smallest in the littlest family, when a man under a tree called him a mighty warrior. Gideon looked around to see who the man could possibly be talking to. There must be someone else. There wasn't. And step by step, with an army that shrank from thirty-two thousand down to three hundred, God walked a frightened boy straight into the thing he was most afraid of.

The Mighty Warrior retells the story of Gideon from Judges 6 and 7, told back and forth between a father at his son's bedside and the trembling, doubting young man who became a warrior. Trey keeps interrupting. That's not enough people. He was still scared, wasn't he? And every time, his dad nods, because the point of the story is not that Gideon stopped being afraid.

It is a story about being chosen when you feel like the least likely one, about courage that does not mean the fear goes away, and about the quiet promise a father gives his son: God's got you. A gentle, unhurried picture book for ages 4 to 10, made to be read slowly and treasured for years. One of five stories in the Old Testament Collection, Volume Two.

Part of the complete Old Testament Collection: Volume Two. The full five-book set is available now.

• Hardcover picture book for ages 4 to 10
• One of five stories in the Old Testament Collection, Volume Two
• One biblical story, told through the eyes of a child who was there
• Warm, faith-forward, and never preachy
• Inspired by the account in Judges 6 and 7