Is 34-37 In Football, sometimes a player fumbles the ball, and the touchdown is given to the opposing team. When Sennacherib tried to get Hezekiah to fumble the ball, he had no idea of the outcome! In Psalm 2, we see how God handles fumbles! “the one enthroned in heaven laughs in disgust; the Lord taunts them,” Then he sends in another team […]
Isaiah 28 Isaiah is challenging his readers to see the true source of God’s way. He exposes the folly of the leaders of the false teacher. Therefore God would allow them to fail but save a remnant to lead His faithful people. God would become “a beautiful crown and a splendid diadem for the remnant […]
Hosea 8-10 Be careful repeating this saying: “do not judge.” We don’t know the motives behind a person’s heart. God is saying I am the ultimate judge, and I alone can judge the heart. Remember Jeremiah’s words: the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked; who can know it? God alone knows the heart. [Jer 17:9-10] […]
Is 23-27 The world is in turmoil; families and governments are vacillating from every side. But, in this time, there is one group that can remain steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord [1Cor 15:58] because their minds are stayed, that is securely focused on one thing: the God who rules over […]
Is 13-17 …Keep Watching! During Israel’s troubles, God sends Isaiah with a message of hope to the nation of Israel. They had been or were to be in bondage from Babylon due to their sins of complacency. God used Babylon to serve Him in disciplining them, but they went above and beyond what God had […]
2 Kings 16-17, 2 Chron 28 We live in a neighborhood of immigrants who do not speak English. This is not a new phenomenon! Back in the OT times, God allowed a wicked Assyrian king to carry away the nation of Israel to his foreign land. In their place, he sent other people he had […]
Micah 1-7 In high school, my biology teacher called the roll and inserted a male name for mine. It stuck, and I was known by that name for the rest of my high school years. No apologies, nothing. Nicknames stick and some are less than desirable, and they hurt. Take, for example, a group of […]
Isaiah 9-12 God graciously allowed Isaiah to see ahead 182 yrs. to the coming Messiah! [Is 9] As he writes, Babylon is not even a disciplinary force! Yet, God gave Isaiah a picture of history to prove what He has said will come to pass. History has proven it and shows us that God leaves […]
Amos 6-9 Do you say, but I am only x, y, z? Do you not think that if God can use a sheepherder, He can use you? Or do you listen to the doomsayers who say, leave us; take your message to other people? Amos faced such backlash in Israel, which was not his home […]
Amos 1 to 5 You may be like some who relate more to Amos, the humble Sheepherder from Tekoa, than someone who wears their Ph.D. on their sleeve. Case in point, some years ago, I encountered a pastor who reminded me that he was to be called Dr. Jones. Some unbelievers react that way when […]
