Judges: Flawed People – Faithful God
Dodgy dealings, brutal murders, leaders that you lose confidence in. You could be excused for wondering why Judges is in the Bible at all.
Dodgy dealings, brutal murders, leaders that you lose confidence in. You could be excused for wondering why Judges is in the Bible at all.
It’s always dangerous to imagine that God feels the same about our enemies as we do. It’s always a shock when we find He sees them so radically differently.
It’s a phrase we hear used a lot, but it was always designed to surprise us, as well as to invite us to see the whole world so very differently.
What does it mean to hear that God loves the world, the church, our enemies and the rebellious?
I’m not going to tell you how I’m going to vote, or how I think you should vote. But what does the Bible say about making this sort of decision?
Some things never end as you expect, but when wonderful things happen, we need to ask ourselves what it all means.
The prophet had warned the people about their complacency but they took no notice. Is there any hope when things have all gone wrong?
To be a prophetic people, we need to be ready to speak up for those who have no voice of their own.
Amos knew that people loved worshipping, singing new songs, the sense of God being near to us. But he also knew they could easily be fooling themselves.
It’s difficult to get the full sense of Amos’ portrayal of the passion of God, trying to get the attention of his people in ways we might feel were extreme.
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