Jonah 4:3 Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.” We all know people who “wear their emotions on their sleeve.” They are “way out there” when it comes to emotional expression. There is no small emotion to them. Their emotions overwhelm them and they loseContinue reading “Emotional Turmoil”
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Done!
Obadiah 1:15 “The day of the LORD is near for all nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head. As you have noticed, the prophets of the Old Testament were sometimes ruthless in their pronouncements of judgment and their call to repentance. They didn’tContinue reading “Done!”
Rolling Justice
Amos 5:24 But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! There are moments in life when the very fiber of our being cries out, “Justice!” We see an event, someone being deprived of justice and we just want to do something. We write on cardboard and staple it to aContinue reading “Rolling Justice”
Moving a Crowd
Amos 3:3 Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so? One of the seemingly modern techniques used in sales has been around for thousands of years. It is used with great affect by all sorts of marketing firms around the world. I noticed it first when I worked for a door toContinue reading “Moving a Crowd”
Reversal of Fortunes
Joel 3: 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, “I am strong!” 11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. BringContinue reading “Reversal of Fortunes”
Easy!
Hosea 12:6 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always. There are times in life when things seem more complicated than they really are. Take reopening the economy following the stay-at-home orders. But this gets muddled when we forget the purpose of the stay-at-home directives. TheContinue reading “Easy!”
Contrasts
Hosea 10:12-13 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. 13 But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you haveContinue reading “Contrasts”
A Character Actor
Hosea 1:2-3 When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.” So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. WeContinue reading “A Character Actor”
New!
Isaiah 65:17 “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. Have you ever wanted a “do over” right in the middle of something? You look at the course you are taking and you realize that the end is not inContinue reading “New!”
The Lowly Pronoun
Isaiah 59:2-4 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. 4 No one calls for justice; noContinue reading “The Lowly Pronoun”
The Arnold Journey 