We Value Empowering Experts Part 2: Deploying the Value In part 1 of empowering experts, we discussed the embracing the value. Embracing the idea of Empowering Experts must come first, but I warn you, that was the easy part! In part 2 we will discuss the deploying the value. As we move forward, the focus remains clear in our sight.… Read more →
Daily Devotional “Time to Seek”
Daily Devotional for January 21, 2015 Hosea 10 Scripture: Hosea 10:12-13 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of… Read more →
Daily Devotional “Warning!”
Daily Devotional for January 20, 2015 Hosea 9 Scripture: Hosea 9:7-9 The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac. The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman… Read more →
Daily Devotional “Sincere Remorse”
Daily Devotional for January 19, 2015 Hosea 8 Scripture: Hosea 8:11-13 “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning. I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something alien. They offer sacrifices given to me and they eat the meat, but the LORD is not pleased… Read more →
Daily Devotional “Don’t Hide”
Daily Devotional for January 18, 2015 Hosea 7 Scripture: Hosea 7:1-3 whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets; but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always… Read more →
Week 4 Devotional Reading Plan
January 17, 2015 Three-Year Reading Plan for Sunday, January 17 – Sunday, January 24: Sunday, January 17: Hosea 6 Monday, January 18: Hosea 7 Tuesday, January 19: Hosea 8 Wednesday, January 20: Hosea 9 Thursday, January 21: Hosea 10 Friday, January 22: Hosea 11 Saturday, January 23: Hosea 12 Sunday, January 24: Hosea 13 —TOM GROOT is National… Read more →
Daily Devotional “Correct and Restore”
Daily Devotional for January 16, 2015 Hosea 5 Scripture: Hosea 5:1–3,14,15 “Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen, royal house! This judgment is against you: You have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor. The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them. I know all about Ephraim; Israel… Read more →
Daily Devotional “He Paid It All”
Daily Devotional for January 15, 2015 Hosea 3-4 Scripture: Hosea 3:1–3 The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.” So I bought… Read more →
Daily Devotional “The Choice Is Yours”
Daily Devotional for January 14, 2015 Hosea 2 Scripture: Hosea 2:5b–8,13 “She said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my food and my water, my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’ Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.… Read more →
Daily Devotional “Unusual Obedience”
Daily Devotional for January 13, 2015 Hosea 1 Scripture: Hosea 1:1–5 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel: When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said… Read more →