Gone Too Far
Today’s Reading: Amos 1-4 Amos 1:3 through 2:3 focuses on judgment of the sins of Israel’s neighbours—Aram, Philistia, Phoenicia, Edom, Ammon, and Moab (four of those nations were distant relatives
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 14:17,21; 15:1-2,3; 2 Chronicles 25:26-28; 26:1-15; Hosea 10-14 What an illustration of failed leadership! Uzziah, as king, did what was right in God’s eyes, yet the
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Today’s Reading: Hosea 4-9 “Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears” (Hosea 6:4b), is the Lord’s response to Israel’s words of repentance. It was
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Today’s Reading: Hosea 1-3 I’m not sure how you are affected by today’s story of Hosea and his unfaithful wife. For me, it is painful beyond words. Perhaps there is
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Today’s Reading: Jonah; 2 Kings 13:5-6; 14:25-27 This is another one of my favourite books or stories in the Bible – of another very extra-ordinary, ordinary man or prophet! Sent
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 12:21; 13:20-25; 14:1-6, 15-16, 23-24; 2 Chronicles 25:5-24 Are you tired of reading “He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 10:32-36; 12:4-21; 13:1-4,7-11,14-20; 2 Chronicles 24:3-27 I grew up hearing that drinking beer was sinful. I remember seeing some Christian friends drinking beer one time. They
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Today’s Reading: Joel From this point onward, we will encounter more and more prophetic literature. Some of it will be hard trekking, but you can do it! (Keep reading! You’re
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 10:18-31; 11:13-16; 12:2-3; 2 Chronicles 22:10-12; 23:1-11, 16-21 Imagine being the foster (better, the adoptive) parents of a king. That is precisely what Jehoiada and Jehosheba
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Today’s Reading: 2 Kings 8:7-15,23-26,28-29; 9:1-27,29-37;10:1-17; 2 Chronicles 21:19-20; 22:1-4,7-9 One attack against the authority and authenticity of the Bible by Muslims is that the Bible is full of stories
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