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  • God’s Holy Bible

    Hosea 9-11 The Lord Will Punish Israel 9 Rejoice not, O Israel!    Exult not like the peoples;for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.    You have loved a prostitute’s wages    on all threshing floors.2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,    and the new wine shall fail them.3 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,    but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,    and they shall eat…

  • The Gospel First Announced

    I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15 Our verse today is called, by Christian theologians, the “first gospel.”  This represents God’s actual announcement in history of His plan of salvation. We cannot understand who Jesus is and…

  • God’s Holy Bible

    Hosea 5-8 Punishment Coming for Israel and Judah 5 Hear this, O priests!    Pay attention, O house of Israel!Give ear, O house of the king!    For the judgment is for you;for you have been a snare at Mizpah    and a net spread upon Tabor.2 And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter,    but I will discipline all of them. 3 I know Ephraim,    and Israel is not hidden…

  • A New Prophet

    The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers; it is to Him you shall listen… Deuteronomy 18:15 Jesus came into our dimension to be our Prophet, Priest, and King. Our verse today is foundational to understanding one of Jesus’ titles, Prophet. In John 4, the Samaritan…

  • God’s Holy Bible

    Hosea 1-4 1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. Hosea’s Wife and Children 2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom…

  • Blessedness Unimagined

    Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:10-25 Judah’s only hope for avoiding disaster during the 8th century BC was to recognize its uncleanness, trust the Lord, and serve Him faithfully as Isaiah did in Isaiah 6. Yet Judah would not accept the message Isaiah brought to Ahaz…

  • God’s Holy Bible

    Daniel 5-7 The Handwriting on the Wall 5 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king…

  • Titus Commended

    As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. 2 Corinthians 8:16-24 Raising money has always been a part of God’s purposes, giving His people a chance to participate in the ongoing of His kingdom. Throughout church history, God’s people have always given because their hearts are moved to do so out…

  • God’s Holy Bible

    Ezekiel 47-48 Water Flowing from the Temple 47 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. 2 Then he…

  • Paul’s Joy

    So although I wrote to you…in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God…Therefore we are comforted. 2 Corinthians 7:12-16 In John 13:20, Jesus said this, “He who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.” The Corinthian church would…