Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Hosea

Waiting On The Lord

HOSEA 12:6 – “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  WAITING ON THE LORD.  Waiting is hard, especially when we are in the depths of sorrow needing God’s comfort, in the depths of trial needing God’s strength, and in the depths of loneliness…

Lessons Learned From Creation

HOSEA 6:3 – Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.” In our reading of the Gospels, and I do hope we spend regular times in the Gospels, have we noticed a frequent way Jesus…

Yes, God Hurts His Children

HOSEA 6:1-3 – “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. Let us know; let us press on to know…

His Willing Heart

HOSEA 2:14–23 – “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of…

Spiritual Amnesia

HOSEA 11:1-3 – When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that…