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1. Warnings and Exhortations for Jerusalem and Judah

Zephaniah 1:1-3, Zephaniah 1:4-13, Zephaniah 1:14--2:3

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... the first person to use the phrase “Yahweh’s day is near.” But the idea that Yahweh’s day is near goes back at least to Amos. In Amos’s day, the fall of Samaria soon proved him right. For Zephaniah, it will be the fall of Jerusalem that does that, though it will not ... , these are people who are “thickening on their lees.” The lees (NIV dregs) are the sediment of grape skins and yeast that sits at the bottom of the casks as the wine ferments. The lees contribute to the process of maturing. We can ...

2. Acquired Taste

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Leonard Sweet

... Sudoku, all can be acquired tastes. In fact, some not-easy-to-love people can be acquired tastes. Singer Tori Amos, the daughter of a Methodist preacher, once admitted “I know I’m an acquired taste. I’m anchovies. And not ... and in return are offered praise and reward, it would never be hard to do the right thing. But a “nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee” faith is as frozen and oversweet as those deep freeze baked goods. It takes Holy Spirit power, Christlike love, and the pushy perseverance of spirit- ...

3. “God Is Our Refuge and Strength, an Ever-Present Help in Trouble”

Psalm 46:1-11

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C. Hassell Bullock

... Book 2 up to this point. The voice of God is incredibly powerful and works uncanny changes on nature, here melting the earth and in Amos 1:2 withering the top of Mount Carmel (see also, e.g., Exod. 15:15; Isa. 14:31). Psalm 29 speaks of the power of ... that teaches us to hope.14 There are times when we get frustrated with God because he is not moving according to our time frame. Lee reminds us that our perspective is limited, and we would be wise to be still before God and to reflect on his pace in history ...

4. The Wedding Guest

John 2:1-11

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Mark Trotter

... , of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined." There were also those beautiful prophecies saying that when the Messiah comes, it will be like a wedding banquet. Jesus himself told a parable of the bridesmaids and identified himself as the bridegroom. So it must have occurred to the guests. Someone must have said, "Do you realize what this means? Remember the passage in Isaiah?" They could have cited Amos, or Hosea, or Jeremiah as well, where it proclaims that in the last days the wine ...

5. The Fountain of Truth

2 Peter 1:12-21

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James Merritt

... You quit camping out, and move to your home for eternity, whether it be heaven or hell. You would be interested to know that Robert E. Lee's last words before he died were: "Strike the tent!" What Peter was saying was, "I am going to die, but you will still have the ... the word of God. Let me be very plain. Between Moses and Matthew, Malachi and Mark, Lamentations and Luke, Jeremiah and John, Amos and Acts, and Proverbs and Paul, we have God's complete once-for-all revelation. We don't need Joseph Smith, Mary ...

6. What Child Is This?

Isaiah 9:6-7

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James Merritt

... did not have his beginning in Bethlehem. Dr. R. G. Lee said that Jesus Christ is the only person ever born, who at the moment of his birth was older than his mother, and as old as his father. What Dr. Lee said practically John said theologically. "In the beginning was ... the makeup of human beings, contradicts in anyway what I have learned from the Hebrew prophets such as: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Amos; and from the book of Ecclesiastes, and from Jesus and the lives of those he touched. Anything that I can say ...

7. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

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Daniel J. Estes

... , and orphan (Exod. 22:21–24). More than that, Yahweh calls on his faithful people to serve as champions for those who are oppressed (Amos 5:14–15). This was how Job has ministered to the needy, as he relates in 29:11–17. When Jesus began his public ... to do good. Film: To Kill a Mockingbird. In this enduring, Academy Award–winning film (1962) based on the novel by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the main character (played by Gregory Peck), is a lawyer who chooses to defend a wrongly accused black man in ...

8. A Message About Moab

Jeremiah 48:1-47

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... . However, it could also be a reference to the place Bethel, where Jeroboam erected a golden calf shrine (1 Kgs. 13:26–33; Amos 7:13). 48:14–17 Verse 14 begins with a taunting rhetorical question: How can you say, “We are warriors, men valiant in battle ... , it is a natural part of the fermentation process to pour wine from jar to jar. After letting the wine rest on its lees for a while to get flavor, the pouring process separates clear wine from the dregs. Even so, for the purposes of this metaphor the ...

9. Miscellaneous Oracles of Judgment

Ezekiel 21:1-32, Ezekiel 22:1-31

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... inevitably brings. In December of 1862, after witnessing the bloody repulse of a seemingly irresistible Union advance at Fredericksburg, Robert E. Lee said, “It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” Tragically, though, we have grown ... serve to drive a point home (for “twice, even three times,” see Job 33:29; for “three, even four,” see Prov. 30). In Amos 1:3–2:16, a counting sequence serves to set forth the offenses calling for God’s judgment (“For three sins of [a ...

10. Zophar’s Final Words for Job

Job 20:1-29

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Daniel J. Estes

... 18:14; 21:12; 64:7; 77:17). Zophar’s implication is that the wicked may run, but they cannot escape God’s judgment (cf. Amos 5:18–19). 20:26 A fire unfanned will consume him. With these words, Zophar either intentionally or insensitively alludes to the fire of ... sinner. Film: The Days of Wine and Roses. In this beautifully acted and compelling old movie (1962) starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick (remade as When a Man Loves a Woman in 1994), we see the consequences of addiction, a condition that is ...

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