By David Faust My wife, Candy, recently celebrated an important birthday. I shouldn’t identify the milestone she hit, but it rhymes with “mix tea.” I hit the same milestone a few months earlier, so I felt it was my husbandly duty to tease her about it. Obviously 60 year olds have lived 60 percent of […]
By Sam E. Stone This quarter’s lessons are taken from a number of important passages in the Minor Prophets (so named because their books are shorter in length than books by other prophets like Isaiah and Daniel). They reveal God’s judgment on all kinds of injustice and disobedience. Many Bible scholars date Amos’s ministry around […]
By Michael C. Mack 1. True or false: The sins of churchgoing Christians are worse than the sins of unbelievers. Defend your answer. Read Amos 2:4-8. 2. Amos had announced judgment on the neighboring nations, but now he points at God’s people. Describe how you think they would have responded to the announcements of judgment […]
By Christy Barritt The Great American Road Trip Is visiting every state on your bucket list? It’s on Randy Olson’s. Olson, who has a self-proclaimed “data tinkering” hobby, set out to find the quickest driving route that would hit popular national landmarks—both natural and historical—in all of the lower 48 states and Washington, D.C. The […]
By Kay Moll What did Amos feel as he set out to deliver God’s message? Was he afraid? Did he worry about the consequences of delivering an unpopular message to a hostile audience? Did he wonder why God had chosen him, a shepherd from Tekoa? Did he wonder if he had heard the call correctly? […]
