Joel Radford – How does God shake the nations? – Amos 9:1-10   1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Bring them down on the heads of all the people; those who are left I will kill with the […]

Joel Radford – What is the worst famine? – Amos 8:11-12 11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land– not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. 12 Men will stagger from sea […]

Joel Radford – How do you deal with opposition? – Amos 7:10-17   10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. 11 For this is what Amos is […]

Joel Radford – Do you grieve over the ruin of man? – Amos 6:1-7   1 Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come! 2 Go to Calneh and look at it; […]

Joel Radford – Are you a religious hypocrite? – Amos 5:18-24   18 Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? That day will be darkness, not light. 19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to […]

Joel Radford – In your pain, will you return to God? – Amos 4:6-13   6 “I gave you empty stomachs in every city and lack of bread in every town, yet you have not returned to me,” declares the LORD. 7 “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months […]

Joel Radford – The lion has roared – who will not fear? – Amos 3:1-15   1 Hear this word the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel– against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt: 2 “You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I […]

Joel Radford – Have you forgotten who God is? – Amos 2:4-16 4 This is what the LORD says: “For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not turn back my wrath. Because they have rejected the law of the LORD and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray […]

Joel Radford – Do you tell others about God’s judgement? – Amos 1:1-2:3   1 The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa– what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel. 2 He said: “The LORD […]