Today's Passage: Amos 6The phrase that keeps coming to mind for me while reading this passage is self-indulgence. We were designed to need rest, and rest is a good thing! But what the leaders of the I...  Read More

Today's Passage: Amos 5For I know the vast numbers of your sins and the depth of your rebellions (v. 12)   God is saying this to the people of Israel in Amos 5 because of their great rebellion. This v...  Read More

Today's Passage: Amos 4Amos 4 is in the context of the judgement of God on Israel. One of the specific refrains repeated for intended affect in verses 6-11 is: “yet you did not return to me.” Each sta...  Read More

Today’s Passage: Amos 3Amos is a minor prophet. This is not because his book is less important but because it is shorter. During this time “both Judah and Israel were enjoying prosperity and security....  Read More

Today's Passage: Amos 2In Amos 1, God announced judgment on the nations surrounding Israel. If you had a map, you would see that these nations form a spiral with Israel in the middle. Chapter two conc...  Read More

Today's Passage: Amos 1One of the phrases that I couldn’t stand to hear as a child but now find myself uttering without regret as a parent is: “Because I said so!” As kids, we needed an explanation. A...  Read More

Today’s Passage: Hosea 14How are you doing Spiritually? How intimate is your relationship with Jesus at thismoment? Why? If you are going through a struggling time in your relationship withJesus, or y...  Read More

Today's Passage: Hosea 13Have you ever really wanted something but then after you got it, it really wasn’t as great as the way you had imagined it? I felt that way about getting toys that had been adv...  Read More

Today's Passage: Hosea 12 I saw a video on Facebook the other day and it reminded me of Hosea 12. It went like this:“Jeremiah, why would a good God send people to Hell?”“God doesn’t send people to Hel...  Read More

Today’s Passage: Hosea 11Hosea 11 is in the context of the unfaithfulness of Israel. (If you have been reading along with us this long this comes as no surprise to you). If nothing else, as you read t...  Read More

Today’s Passage: Hosea 10There is an attribute of God that is so apparent as you read the story and narrative ofScripture… PATIENCE. God is patient.“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some...  Read More

Today's Passage: Hosea 9Like grapes in the wilderness,    I found Israel.Like the first fruit on the fig tree    in its first season,    I saw your fathers.But they came to Baal-peor    and consecrate...  Read More