A cataclysmic event gets our attention. It may involve personal loss, social disruption, natural disaster, plague or pandemic. In Joel’s day an agriculturally based economy was destroyed by locusts. It prompted the question, “Has anything…
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The story of Hosea’s life is as audacious as it is astonishing! In the case of this prophet, the medium (Hosea, himself) becomes the message. The Lord commanded him to marry a woman who would…
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Daniel lived out his entire life at risk and at the very center of empires battling for power on the world stage. From a very young age, to avoid being assimilated into spiritual idolatry and…
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Catastrophe strikes us and our world changes; this disorientation should drive us to an honest evaluation of our realities and then to solutions. Denial refuses to acknowledge what has happened: holding tightly to certainties that…
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Jeremiah is very poignant in reminding us that we are to live within the reality of our times, focus on the responsibilities before us, and find hope in the revelation and promises of God. One…
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The sixteen writing prophets of Scripture have been severely neglected. Yet, their messages to us are as timely as when they were written. In the next 16 days we will go through them one at…
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It is strange and shameful that many in our Western culture that claim to be Christians, believe, even to the point of being dogmatic, in a book that they have never read. Still more dangerous…
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The Bible has been around for twenty five hundred years. It continues in its completed form to be the best-selling book on the planet. From its obscure origination it has become a worldwide sacred text. …
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Reading the Bible will provoke a process of wrestling, doubting, imagining, and aggressively discussing its mysteries. Scripture is not a static work, but a living, breathing, captivating, and confounding book that is able to equip…
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As the prophet Amos declared of old, “There is a famine in the land, not of bread or water, but of hearing and knowing the Word of the Lord.” Most of our churches teach and…
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