4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run. 5 As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle. 6 Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale. 7 Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the...
2 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, 2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through...
13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 14 Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord. 15 Alas for...
8 Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.9 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord.The priests mourn, the ministers of the Lord.10 The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns,because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes. 11 Be ashamed,[b] O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers,for the wheat and the barley, because the...
4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. 6 For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its...
During my sabbatical, which was predominantly a time of rest, I set myself one project, which was to translate Joel from the original Hebrew. I had two purposes in mind – firstly, I want to keep improving my Hebrew language skills and secondly translating from Hebrew forces me to slow down and read God’s Word...
Jesus Christ was and is the great prophet. He alone perfectly fulfils the three fold requirement of, being filled with the Spirit, proclaiming God’s Word, and doing signs & wonders. But what about his prophetic work today now that he has ascended? This prophetic work continues through his Church today until he returns. As his...
This sermon is a timely encouragement to lay hold of the glorious and certain hope that believers have with Jesus’ second coming. For, as scripture makes clear Jesus will surely come again. He will return in majesty and glory when he does. And his return will effect everything and every part of life as we...
Through a mixture of stories from the bible, modern Britain and his own life, Chris reminds us that Jesus Changes Lives! He did it 2,000 years ago and he does it today. Jesus is not looking for perfect individuals. But instead imperfect individuals, who are willing to to acknowledge their imperfections, and receive his life...
This sermon encourages us to receive God’s forgiveness fully today! To move on from carrying around our shame and guilt of not being good enough. Instead, laying down these thoughts at the cross fully accepting the freedom Jesus has won for us and living in this truth. It also encourages us to fully forgive ourselves....
