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Amos 4:6-13, Prepare to Meet Your God
You’ve seen the signs along the highways, the billboards someone paid to put up, saying, “Prepare to Meet Your God!” They are intended as warnings to passersby, but without any context we are left
Continue reading...Amos 4:1-5, Unpleasing Worship
Were you to liken any woman to a cow today, you would be rightly persecuted for it. It is a highly disparaging rudeness. So, is Amos to be faulted for calling the wealthy women of Samaria, Israel by this
Continue reading...Amos 3:9-15, Bear Witness
Yahweh had been pronouncing judgment upon Israel’s enemies/neighbors but then suddenly included Israel and Judah in these pronouncements. Their special relationship to Yahweh made them more responsible
Continue reading...Amos 3:1-8, Greater Responsibility
You would think that having a special relationship with someone would move them to overlook when you mess up. But for Israel, it’s just the opposite. 3:1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against
Continue reading...Amos 2:4-16, The Wheel Turns
2:4 Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh, and have not kept his statutes. They have been
Continue reading...Amos 1:11-2:3, Judgment on Edom, Ammon and Moab
1:11 Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and showed him no mercy, and his anger was unrelenting,
Continue reading...Amos 1:6-10 Philistia and Tyre Judged
1:6 Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom. 7 So I will send a
Continue reading...Amos 1:3-5 – Damascus Is Judged
1:3 Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. 4 So I will send a fire
Continue reading...Amos 1:1,2 – Yahweh Roars
1:1 The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa—the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel. 2 He
Continue reading...Sermon on Isaiah 49:1-7, The Mission of the Servant of Yahweh
Have you ever been commissioned? You know, formally chosen by someone to carry out a specific work or job. Maybe it happened to you in the military. You were commissioned as an officer. Maybe you were
Continue reading...Sermon on the Lord’s Prayer
When I was growing up, but a mere lad, my family attended the local Presbyterian church. I sadly remember only a few things I learned there. That the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament did not have
Continue reading...Sermon on John 14, Bringing Others to Heaven With Us
There once was a very famous philanthropist whose gift at giving away money was unequaled in his day. Not only did he give his money, he gave his heart. He had a special knack for finding out about
Continue reading...Sermon on John 4:43-54, What It Means to Believe in Jesus
When I spoke to you last, I shared a bit of what we sometimes call our “testimony,” our recounting of our conversion experience. I told you how as a young person of 16 years I had been challenged by
Continue reading...Sermon on John 11:17-37, Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life
I encountered Jesus at the age of 16, or maybe I should say I began encountering him. He was speaking to me through a new acquaintance at school, a guy who was challenging what I believed (I claimed to
Continue reading...Sermon on John 1:1, The Word Was God
Many years ago, I think around 1990, a woman in my church came to me concerned about her niece. Her niece, Christie, had converted to Jehovah’s Witnesses, and had corresponded with her aunt about it
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