Still on the Hook

Still on the Hook

Titus 2:9-10 “Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, to not talk back to them and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior...
Buyer’s Remorse

Buyer’s Remorse

2 Chronicles 25:9 “Amaziah asked the man of God, ‘But what about the hundred talents I paid for those Israelite troops?’” Observation: Amaziah, king of Judah, was preparing to war against Edom. To augment his army, he hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel...
African Field Hand

African Field Hand

Hosea 4:7 “The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful.” Observation: Through the prophet Hosea God condemns both the nation of Israel and their priests. They had rejected knowledge so God had...
Chasing Her Tail

Chasing Her Tail

Hosea 2:6-7a “Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them.” Observation: Israel is portrayed as an unfaithful wife...
Home to Roost

Home to Roost

Hosea 1:2 “When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, ‘Go, take yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord.’” Observation: Hosea’s family life is to be...
Inertia toward Destruction

Inertia toward Destruction

1 Kings 22:8(b) “…but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad.” Observation: Ahab, king of Israel, was preparing to war when an allied king, Jehoshaphat, encouraged Ahab to first seek God’s counsel. Ahab maintained a stable of...