Prophets

Conversations with God, the book of Malachi

September 28, 2019 by bible805

What kind of a relationship do you have with someone if you never talk to them?

OR if they talk to you and you ignore them?

In our podcast today we’ll review God’s conversations with His people throughout the Old Testament and what he finally had to say to them before becoming silent for 400 years. Along the way, we’ll talk about how we ought to respond when we read his messages today.

To download PDF of the notes for the Podcast, click the following link: Malachi-NOTES

Zechariah and Captain America—why does God chose to speak in images?

September 22, 2019 by bible805

If you want to describe the perfect super-hero, a sterling example of strength, integrity, leadership, and self-giving, you could list these characteristics in minute dictionary detail or you could simply say, “Captain America.”

An image can contain volumes of backstory and meaning in a few words—the challenge is you need to understand the meaning of the image.

The books of the Old Testament and Zachariah is one of the main ones that do this, uses imagery in much the same way.

The challenge to modern readers have is that we don’t know the backstory of the imagery. For us visions of myrtle trees, golden lampstands, and a flying scroll make about as much sense to us as Captain America, Thor, and Spiderman would make to the Old Testament Jews.

In our podcast, we’ll discover the meaning of the images in this fascinating book that also contains more specific prophecy about Jesus than any other Old Testament book other than Isaiah.

For a PDF of the notes and more information, click the following link and following the podcast is the complete print out of the notes: NOTES Zechariah and Captain America–why God uses images

What will make us truly happy and satisfied? —answered by the Prophet Haggai

September 14, 2019 by bible805

What makes you truly happy and satisfied?

Is its financial security? A loving family or relationship? A beautiful home?

Though all of these things, financial security, loving family, beautiful home are what most of us want, we’ll see in our podcast today that these are not what creates true happiness and inner satisfaction and peace—but we won’t stop with being negative, but will talk about how we can achieve not only what we want, but what we are created for.

Our source of for this lesson is the Prophet Haggai and that’s what our podcast is about.

CLICK the following link to download a PDF of the notes: NOTES FOR HAGGAI–how to be truly Happy

The full copy follows.

Whiner, Worker, Witness, or Wonder? Lessons learned from Ezekiel & Daniel

August 31, 2019 by bible805

We know hard times will come

The question is, How do we respond? Two characters in the Old Testament, Ezekiel and Daniel, whose stories started when they were teenagers give us some encouraging examples.

In the midst of unimaginable challenges, we’ll see how…..

They didn’t whine; they faithfully worked; their lives became a witness; the wonder of God was then revealed to and through them.

Click on the link following to download a PDF of the lesson and below the notes are written out: NOTES for Ezekiel and Daniel

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Why it is OK to ask God “Why?” Lessons from the prophet Habakkuk

August 27, 2019 by bible805

Is it OK to ask God “why?”

Why do you allow evil?

Why do evil people get away with things?

Why do good people get caught up in the mess others make?

In this podcast we’ll look at the prophet Habakkuk and what happened when he not only asked God “Why?” but when he kept asking God when he didn’t like how God answered him the first time.

Click on the following link to download a PDF of the notes, below they are printed out: NOTES of HABAKKUK

Live with the End in Mind: the Day of the Lord, Zephaniah & Joel

August 17, 2019 by bible805

The bestselling book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People totally revolutionized the lives of millions of people and one of the habits Steven Covey, the author, talked about is a great summary of our podcast today.