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James McLemore
What kind of hunger is so powerful, so insatiable that it cannot be satisfied? How does one describe such a hunger? How does one respond to it? The living examples of this type of hunger are all around us. A young boy is lying on a cot in a dark room. He tosses and turns, fretting and frantic in a sleepless night. The room is warm, his stomach is full, but he is so hungry. He is sleeping on a bed,...
2. Summer Fruit
Amos 8:1-14
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Richard L. Sheffield
Charles Swindoll says, "... it's a mad, bad, sad world."1 You knew that already? He quotes Barbara Johnson who writes in her book Splashes of Joy in the Cesspools of Life: "The rain falls on the just and also on the unjust, but chiefly on the just, because the unjust steals the just's umbrella."2 The Prophet Amos, who lived and told it like it was about 750 years before the birth of Jesus, agree...
3. God Notices
Amos 8:1-14
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John W. Wurster
It was the best of times. A time of prosperity and confidence, a time of relative peace, a time when most everything looked pretty good, a time when most everyone felt pretty good. It was a time maybe not unlike our own time. In such a time, among such a people, naysayers are hardly welcome. Who wants to hear about the bad that could be coming in the future when what’s going on in the present look...
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Stan Purdum
Colleen was a good woman with a bad heart. She had been a member of my last congregation for more than thirty years, ever since she'd married a man who'd grown up in our church. But for several years, she had been living with a weakened heart. It was just one of those things that afflict some people, and she'd been doctoring for it for some time. Initially, she'd kept working, but as she miss...
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Stephen P. McCutchan
When we speak of Amos today, we know that he was one of Israel's great prophets. Yet at the time when Amos spoke, he took pains to remind us that he was just an ordinary migrant worker. What he spoke were the words God had shown him. God spoke to him through a series of visions that came to Amos when he was in worship. As he participated in these common ritu­als of worship, which he and othe...
6. DodgeGod
Amos 8:1-14
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Leonard Sweet
In 1965 Leonora and Arthur Hornblow wrote a children's book that has become a classic: Birds Do the Strangest Things. It's where I learned that a hawk is no match for a hummingbird. It's also where I learned about the bowerbird. Can you believe that a bird can build a house? Well, there's one that does. When explorers in New Guinea first saw these houses, they thought children had built them. But...
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