Hos 3:1-5 Most of us would have had some experience of someone we trusted, whether a family member, friend or colleague, betray us or cause us harm. In such a situation, we may just want to cut the person who…

Hos 2:14-23 When I was teaching at Bible college, a student of mine finishing his training for pastoral ministry was speaking at the last chapel service of the year. He described how he had drifted from God a year or…

Hos 2:2-13 I recently listened to an interview about our hurried lives and our relationship to time. The interviewee’s advice in the first instance was to look at what motivates us to be busy, why we feel that we constantly…

Hos 1:10-11; 2:1 Before I studied theology, I used to be puzzled by the abrupt transitions in prophetic books. It made no sense to me that a prophet would thunder with harsh words of denunciation one moment only to follow…

Hosea 1:1-9 One of my younger students at Bible college/seminary described his youth group in a discussion. He said members in the group knew little about what was in the Bible, apart from a few gospel stories and have never…