+ Follow HOSEA Tag
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293279 [Title] => Half-baked Christians [Summary] =>
Ephraim is a cake unturned … But they do not return to the Lord their God. – Hosea 7:8,10
The prophet Hosea used the tribe of Ephraim as a poetic representation of the northern kingdom of Israel. In a colorful admonition, he wrote that Ephraim had become "a cake unturned" (Hosea 7:8).
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287918 [Title] => God forgives disobedience [Summary] => I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. – Hosea 14:4
I’ll never forget the painful lesson I learned in early childhood about disobedience. My father, who had been mowing our lawn, interrupted his work to go shopping. He left the push mower standing near some flowers and ordered me not to touch it while he was gone. But I disobeyed him and gave it a push. To my shock, the mower veered and knocked over several flowers.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 284450 [Title] => Love is vulnerable [Summary] => How can I give you up, Ephraim? . . . My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred. – Hosea 11:8
The experience of a heartbroken Christian woman (I’ll call her Mary) illustrates how love makes the lover vulnerable. Mary was a devoted wife who deeply loved her husband, but after eight years and two children he left her for another woman. Her faith in God and her love for her children kept her going.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262280 [Title] => The divided heart [Summary] => Teach me, Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name. – Psalm 86:11
The Israelites of Hosea’s day were trying to worship both pagan idols and the one true and living God. So the prophet Hosea used three colorful figures of speech to describe their divided hearts.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 249790 [Title] => Planting good seeds [Summary] => Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD. – Hosea 10:12
As a new gardener, I soon learned that uncultivated soil was resistant to seed planting and growth. But when I planted good seeds in well-prepared soil, heaven’s sun and rain did their part until the harvest came. Well-prepared soil, the right seeds, and God’s blessing are essential for fruitfulness, not only in gardening but also in Christian living.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) ) )
April 11, 2012 - 12:00am
September 29, 2011 - 12:00am
October 21, 2009 - 12:00am
November 12, 2006 - 12:00am
January 12, 2006 - 12:00am
August 25, 2005 - 12:00am
July 24, 2005 - 12:00am
July 2, 2005 - 12:00am
August 23, 2004 - 12:00am
May 13, 2004 - 12:00am