Pastor’s Blog

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- Zephaniah 1:1-3:20 Zephaniah prophesied during the reign of King Josiah. He was a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah. Although there was a great reformation in the days of Josiah, triggered by the discovery in the temple of...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- NAHUM 1:1- 3:19 The Book of Nahum is a sequel to the Book of Jonah. When Jonah walked the streets and preached to his enemies at Nineveh, the people repented and were spared of God’s judgment. But now, approximately one hundred...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- MICAH 5:1-7:20 Micah accurately predicts the judgments coming upon the northern and southern kingdoms. Israel is captured by the Assyrians in 722 B.C. and Judah will be taken by the Babylonians more than one hundred years later...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- MICAH 1:1-4:13 Micah was an eighth century B.C. prophet from Moresheth, Judah, a contemporary of the prophet Isaiah, who preached both to Israel and Judah during the reigns of Jotham (750 – 732 B.C.) and Hezekiah (715 -686) who...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- Jonah 1:1-4-11; Seven times we read, words to the effect, “The word of the Lord came to Jonah” (1:1;2:10; 3:1, 3; 4:4, 9, 10). Jonah, son of Amittai, was told to preach against the great city of Nineveh, the capital city of...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- OBADIAH 1:1-21; Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament. His prophecies focus on the Edomite nation, descendants of Abraham’s grandson, Esau, and the rival of his other grandson, Jacob. The Edomites had a history of...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- AMOS 7:1-9:15 Amos is shown possible scenarios of judgments- God can judge with a plague of locusts (7:1-3), or He can use fire (7:4-6). Amos pleads for mercy, knowing that ‘Jacob’ would not survive. “How can Jacob stand? He is...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- - AMOS 4:1-6:14 Amos sarcastically invites the people of Israel to their altars of disobedience at Bethel and Gilgal and dares them to continue to serve their worthless idols. He says, ‘brag about your free-will offerings’, your...

TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- Amos was not a religious professional. He did not go to a school for prophets. He was a shepherd of Tekoa and a grower of figs, and yet he had a strong prophetic voice. He prophesies against the surrounding nations and then...