Category: Prophets

14-Jan-18 1 Samuel 3:1-20 The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. That’s quite a statement. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. The expectation, of course, of the writer of First Samuel is that that should not have been the case. […]

03-Dec-17 Isaiah 64:1-9 There are times when I can totally resonate with verse one. “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence!” Sometimes as a disciple of Jesus Christ, I can feel so lost and so alone in this broken and damaged world. […]

05-Nov-17 Micah 3:5-12 I probably should have titled this sermon, “Nothing for the mouth, nothing from the mouth.” But earlier in the week, when I first began working with this passage, I was so terrified by the words that I was reading, that I titled it “Scary Words to the Preacher.” Just the same though, […]

02-Apr-17 Ezekiel 37:1-14 And they were very dry. The vision that Ezekiel sees in his dream is one of hopelessness and desolation. Ezekiel has been caught up by the Spirit of the Lord, and that same Spirit has set him down in a valley that is littered with human bones that have been completely dried […]

29-Jan-17 Micah 6:1-8 It is a lot like being neglected by one’s lover, and wondering why. The lover has grown cold, standoffish, spurning one’s affections and advances. And it seems as though there is no reason at all for this cold, and unresponsive behavior. And then, the discovery, the awful discovery, that the lover has […]

25-Sep-16 Jeremiah 32:1-15 We’re looking this morning at a real estate deal, that under normal circumstances, would probably have been a fairly wise purchase. Some people seem to have a knack for dabbling in real estate. They know when to buy and they know when to sell. They understand the market, and sometimes they can […]

24-July-16 Hosea 1:1-11 When we were last together a couple of weeks ago, I thought I did a pretty good job of handling the reference to the world’s oldest profession. It’s not always an easy thing when the Scriptures are more explicit than we would like them to be. God’s word is not always palatable […]

10-July-16 Amos 7 In his vision, Amos saw a plague of locusts. The locusts came and they ate up all of the grass in the land. Now, not being a man of agriculture, and having no experience in the business of haying, I can only report this information as hearsay. Some of you here this […]

26-June-16 1 Kings 21:1-29 In the summary statement re-capping the kingship of Ahab, nothing is said about him that is good. He was most likely the most rotten, most evil, most hateful and conniving king ever to rule over the people of God. The writer of First Kings says, “Indeed, there was no one like […]

19-June-16 1 Kings 19:1-14 Last Sunday while we were at worship, a terrible tragedy was unfolding in Orlando, Florida. In what is being called the largest mass shooting in modern American history, a gunman entered a crowded night- club and slaughtered 49 people, before being shot to death by the authorities. Since then, in an […]