Monthly Archive: February 2017

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Nowhere to hide

There is nowhere to hide from God. For God is everywhere. God is in everything. God created all things. There is nowhere to hide from God. Though they dig down to the depths below,...

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When the time is right…

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. ‘What do you see, Amos?’ he asked. ‘A basket of ripe fruit,’ I answered. Then the Lord said to me, ‘The...

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No way can I stop now

Amos 7 is a chapter packed with doom and gloom. Amos sees a vision of a devastating swarm of locusts and begs for mercy. I cried out, ‘Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?...

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What God hates

So what does God hate? ‘I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it.’  Amos 5:8 God hates pride and all that it...

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Prepare to meet your God

Amos is speaking out with God’s message at a time when society in Israel was very prosperous and very religious. A time when no one was interested in what he had to say. Things...

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Do bears shit in the woods?

Listen. Hear this word, for it is God’s word for you. His people. This is what Amos was saying to the people of God in His time, but it is what God has been...

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How we treat other people matters

Looking at the first two chapters of the book of Amos, there’s an repeated motif that gives these chapters a poetic quality. A formulaic structure that’s repeated seven times to create a dramatic effect....