by Susan Barnes | 28 Feb 2014 | Devotions OT
I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me. Amos 5:21 We can’t assume our festivals and assemblies are a blessing to God. So often when we plan events we think that our preferences are the same as God’s. We think the songs we like,...
by Susan Barnes | 21 Feb 2014 | Devotions OT
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Amos 2:7 I expect prophets to preach against spiritual issues like idolatry, apathy in worship and moral sins. Yet the prophets’ complaint against God’s people also...
by Susan Barnes | 18 Feb 2007 | Devotions OT
Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet nor a prophet’s son, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go prophesy to my people Israel.’” Amos 7:14-15 We don’t hear a lot...
