Understanding Amos’ message is tied up in these four contextual factors: a shift in structures of land ownership and exploitation within the new structure an increasing gap between the wealthy elite and the poor peasant class corruption of justice in the law courts covenantal disobedience with hypocritical religious ceremonies Generally speaking, Amos proclaimed a message …
How Do We Hear from God today?
Through the past two blog posts , I have held up a vision of the God who speaks in various ways and we as His people hearing from Him. That is the vision I want to put in front of us. The prophets heard from God, and their hearing is unique from ours as authoritative …
What Does It Mean to ‘Hear God’?
Yesterday, I began a series of posts about hearing God with the question, "Does God Speak Today." Today, I want to continue that theme by asking a second, but related question. If God speaks, how does He speak? And what does it mean to “hear God”? The various ways God speaks[1] Dallas Willard outlines six …
Does God Still Speak Today?
Working through a preaching series on the minor prophets, again and again I come across a phrase, “The word of the Lord that came to…” That phrase appears more than twenty times in the minor prophets (at least 10 of those are in Zechariah alone!): “The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son …
Hesed: the lovingkindness of God in Hosea
In the purposes of God, Hosea’s life was a message to God’s people about the ways God would show love to His people. With Hosea’s life as a reference point, God tells the people He will relate to them like a faithful and loving husband relates to his wife. In particular, God will steadfastly love …
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Matthew Erickson 