Plead With Your Mother (Hosea 2:2-13)We come to another abrupt transition (cf. 1:10). Promise of reversal of children’snames returns to the theme of an unfaithful wife. But is this section referring toGomer or Israel? We have anticipated the analogy, but now Hosea makes itexplicit that he is speaking to an unfaithful Israel.Pray and Read Hosea 2:2-13 .In Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë provides us with a picture of obsessiveidolatry. She graphically depicts sin’s inability to provide what we ultimatelyseek.As Heathcliff is…
Confidence in the Gospel (1:6-8) Paul’s joy and gratitude in prayer are explained and defended in verses 6-8 before he prays for their ongoing spiritual maturity. Verse 6 is a pivotal verse that really establishes his gratitude and prayer for the saints in Philippi. Pray and Read Philippians 1:6-8. Many pastors have an entrepreneurial spirit. They like to cast a vision and develop a plan to fulfill that vision. But, so often, the strategy that underlies the vision and the plan…