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Beware This Unusual Judgment. Amos 8:11-12.

In the Old Testament God punished His people in many ways—with wars lost, enslavement, pestilence, starvation, drought. One creative punishment was silence. “Hear this! The days are coming when I will send a famine though the land: not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.Continue reading “Beware This Unusual Judgment. Amos 8:11-12.”

How Do You Keep Children Obedient?

If you were God, you would face the challenge of parenting humans: when you bless them, they get cocky, rude, and selfish. When you punish them, they repent—but it hurts to watch them suffer. This is the Deuteronomic principle: if you love children, you want to lavish them with gifts—but when you do they becomeContinue reading “How Do You Keep Children Obedient?”