Hosea is the prophet of compassion. He prophesied to Israel shortly after Amos, but unlike Amos who preached a message of condemnation and judgment for a short time, Hosea preached a message that not only challenged people to repent from their sins, but one filled with God’s love and compassion for over 50 years–until the […]
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In this and last week’s readings, two passages show the dangers of pride. One describes Edom, the nation that descended from Esau and the other, the fate of King Uzziah, a good and godly king initially, but one whose pride God judged with leprosy. C.S. Lewis described pride as “the essential vice, the utmost evil. […]
Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament, only one chapter long, but it tells a very old story. It relates the continuing fight and result of the battle between two brothers, Jacob and Esau. God foretold before the twins were born that the older would serve the younger, but no one in the […]
Have you ever known someone who started out with remarkable promise but somewhere along the line something went terribly wrong? Our hopes for them were so high – that they would be used mightily of God. But in the end they seemed to sink below everyone’s expectations, including their own. It’s a difficult thing to watch and perhaps even more difficult […]
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