Hosea 1:2-10

The Good News or the Bad News?

Which do you want first: the good news or the bad news?

Well, if you’re preaching Hosea these next two weeks, it doesn’t matter what you want.  You’re getting the bad news first.  So, if you are taking on this two-part set of lectionary passages on Hosea—and if you’re doing the first then you would be well-served to follow its harshness with the grace of the second—then Godspeed you, my friend.

The Prophet Hosea & Sign Acts

If you’ve not preached Hosea in the past, then you probably at least recall from seminary or your own reading that Hosea took one of those calls that would not have garnered many applicants via the denomination’s list of job openings.  God called Hosea to be…