Seek the Lord and live… He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name; Amos 5:4,6,8 Charles H Spurgeon, in a [...]
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Weak, wicked or worship
Posted: December 10, 2011 by Pam Larson in Amos, December, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Charles Spurgeon, creation points to God Himself, daily Bible, Scripture, seeking God, true worship, Weak wicked or worship
5 Times Blocked
Posted: December 9, 2011 by Pam Larson in Amos, December, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, God's Sovereign Mercy, Scripture, sovereign grace
John Piper, in a sermon from Amos 4:4-13, “Prepare to Meet Your God” In verses 6–11 Amos is done with irony. He reminds the people that God has shouted the truth of his reality to them in five striking ways that they might return. But they would not. In verse 6 he says there had [...]
Crushing load
Posted: December 8, 2011 by Pam Larson in Amos, December, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Biblical roadkill, Charles Spurgeon, Crushing load, daily Bible, Scripture
“Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.” (KJV) “Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down. (ESV) As I read commentaries on Amos 1-2, I stumbled on Charles Spurgeon’s sermon, “The Loaded Waggon” He was using the [...]
The Bible Plumbline
Posted: December 11, 2010 by Pam Larson in Amos, December, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Charles Spurgeon, daily Bible, Plumbline, Scripture, standard of the Bible, The Bible Plumbline
C. H. Spurgeon, from an 1876 sermon, “The Plumbline” Do not let us judge either ourselves or one another simply by the eye. I have frequently thought that a building was out of the perpendicular when it was not; and I have sometimes thought it perpendicular when it really was not so. The human eye [...]
December 11 Amos 7-9
Posted: December 11, 2010 by Pam Larson in Amos, Bible Passages, December Bible ReadingsTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, December 11 Amos 7-9, December Bible Readings, Scripture
December 11 Amos 7-9 (ESV) Warning Visions 7:1 This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord God, [...]
“An undevout astronomer is mad.”
Posted: December 10, 2010 by Pam Larson in Amos, December, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Amos, “An undevout astronomer is mad.”, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Charles Spurgeon, Creator, daily Bible, Lord of the Stars, Scripture, seek God's wisdom, Seek to KNOW God!, seeking God, Sovereign Creator
Seek the Lord and live…Amos 5:4 and 6 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name; Amos 5:8 Charles H [...]
December 10 Amos 5-6
Posted: December 10, 2010 by Pam Larson in Amos, Bible Passages, December Bible ReadingsTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, December 10 Amos 5-6, December Bible Readings, Scripture
December 10 Amos 5-6 (ESV) Seek the Lord and Live 5:1 Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: 2 “Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.” 3 For thus says the Lord God: “The city that went out [...]
Prepare to Meet Your God!
Posted: December 9, 2010 by Pam Larson in Amos, December, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, God's mercy, God's Sovereign Mercy, judgment, mercy, mercy of God, Prepare to Meet Your God!, Scripture
John Piper, in a sermon from Amos 4:4-13, “Prepare to Meet Your God” In verses 6–11 Amos is done with irony. He reminds the people that God has shouted the truth of his reality to them in five striking ways that they might return. But they would not. In verse 6 he says there had [...]
December 9 Amos 3-4
Posted: December 9, 2010 by Pam Larson in Amos, Bible Passages, December Bible ReadingsTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, December 9 Amos 3-4, December Bible Readings, Scripture
December 9 Amos 3-4 (ESV) Israel’s Guilt and Punishment 3:1 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: 2 “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for [...]
How do our walls look against the plumbline?
Posted: December 11, 2011 by Pam Larson in Amos, December, Devotionals/CommentariesTags: Amos, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Charles Spurgeon, daily Bible, How do our walls look against the plumbline?, Plumbline, The Bible Plumbline
This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line [...]