Loving God, Loving Others, Making Disciples

Sermons by Paul Cook (Page 15)

Micah

“O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me! For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Micah 6:3-4 A broken-hearted God is crying out to His disobedient people…

Jonah

This short book reveals just as much about God’s “heart” as it does “God’s will”. God’s Word of judgment against sin pulsates with God’s heart to save sinners. God seeks the good of his enemies even while Jonah’s heart proves quite the opposite.  For us today, where are we running from God and His Word?…

Amos – part 2

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water – but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east, they shall run to and fro,…

Hosea

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.” Hosea 1:2 God uses the prophet Hosea’s life as a graphic picture of the adultery Israel is committing against God. Just as…