Emphasis Preaching Journal
If you have spent much...
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If you have spent much time with children up through the junior high age you have undoubtedly witnessed great changeableness in their relationships. Two children can be the greatest of friends on Tuesday, archenemies on Wednesday, and by Saturday bosom buddies once again. We expect that with children. But when fickleness lingers into adulthood it is a far more serious matter.
It is precisely this fickleness that leads Hosea to hear God say, "There is no faithfulness or love in the land ... they make promises and break them ..."
It is precisely this fickleness that leads Hosea to hear God say, "There is no faithfulness or love in the land ... they make promises and break them ..."