Hosea 6-7 “Repentance” Intro: Texting while Driving; Junk Food; Wreckless Spending –>Repentance Repentance=turning from one way of living/thinking/feeling to another way of living/thinking/feeling. -Christianity=Repentance is turning away from sin and unbelief and turn to God and His ways. -If we are to follow God, we must see both the goodness of repentance and our need […]
Hosea 4-5: “Knowledge of God” (Preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship on 5.11.25) INTRO: Atheists=God does not exist; Agnostics=God cannot be known. -Philosophical agnostics; Practical agnostics; Religious agnostics -God’s Word shows us the great error and evil of this position: It is possible, right, and good to know God. –Man’s great problem: they do not […]
Hosea 2:2-3:5 “Spiritual Adultery & Shocking Grace” (Preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, Naperville IL. on 5.4.25) INTRO: Story of man who discovered adultery of his wife: pain, shock, evil of infidelity. -Israel is like an adulterous wife—by going after idols—and God is calling her back to Himself through Hosea CONTEXT: Prophet Hosea called […]
WIFE OF GOD? A Contrast between Christianity and Mormonism Does God have a wife? How you answer this reveals what kind of God you believe in. It also demonstrates how wide is the divide between historic biblical Christianity and that of Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). The accepted teaching of Mormonism is […]
WIFE & WHORE: 2 Shocking Images from Hosea Wife. Whore. These are two shocking images that God uses to describe his people. Both of these images are shocking in different ways. WIFE OF GOD? Unlike the god of Mormonism and the Roman gods of antiquity, the God of Christianity neither has sex, nor has a […]
Structure of Hosea The literary structure of Hosea is two main parts: ch 1-3 Parable Acted Out; ch 4-14 Parable Preached. The book seems to be mainly made up of four main elements, which are repeated through the book and are found in both parts. The four elements are indictment (exposure of sin), judgment (announcement […]
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An Introduction to Hosea
An Introduction to Hosea Genre Hosea is book of prophecy and narrative prose and is included in the 12 Minor Prophets. The narrative material is limited to the first three chapters, while chapters 4-14 is a collection of prophetic oracles. These prophetic oracles may have originally been spoken aurally or they might have been […]
EASTER 2025: A Victorious Love (John 10:17) John 10:17: For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. Intro: 1942, a Saturday morning, and I’m at your house eating French crepes. -After debating what we should put on our crepes (Nutella, or maple syrup), […]
GOOD FRIDAY 2025: John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Intro: Tonight, I hope that you will see with me the incomparably great love of Jesus for sinners. -This is on display at the cross M.I.: At the cross, we see the incomparably great […]
