God Does Not Lose

Amos 4:12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. My grandfather used to tell a story about his father, William Rice, who had been a cowboy and a lay preacher. In Decatur, Texas, where my...

God Chastens Because He Loves

Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. There are two kinds of preacher’s kids in this world. I know that because I am a preacher’s son, a preacher’s grandson, and a preacher’s great...

The Worst Loneliness is Chosen

Hosea 13:9, 10a O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. I will be thy king: where is any other…? I think everyone knows that you can be lonely in a crowd. If you go to any large city, or even a small town, the sidewalks and subways are filled...

You Choose your History Today

Hosea 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. You can’t take it back. You can’t take back what you said, what you did, or what you thought this past weekend. That is done. That is history. It is implacable. It...

Who Will You Treat as God?

Hosea 8:6 The workman made it; therefore it is not God. There is not a four-year-old alive who does not know how to run the house. Many times a grandpa or grandma thinks that he or she is running things when actually a two or three-year-old is running things. Children...