Dirge

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2 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1

2 Samuel 1 – I love a good cup of coffee. In fact, putting a pot of Joe on in the morning is the first thing of…

Amos 5

Amos 5

Amos 5 – In a move that would be shocking to the listeners, Amos sings a song of lament, a dirge of Israel who is fallen.  The irony is…

Ezekiel 27

Ezekiel 27

Ezekiel 27 – It’s a funeral lament.  Comparing the city of Tyre to a ship it speaks of trading partners and their response to what it will be like…

Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5 – We don’t often think in terms of the comprehensive suffering that Judah endured during exile. It was not just that their enemies came and put them…

Lamentations 1

Lamentations 1

Lamentations 1 – He’s known as the weeping prophet. For 40 years Jeremiah served God faithfully with little to no success.  By the world’s standards, he was a failure…

Revelation 18

Revelation 18

Revelation 18 – The persecuted church has always faced the temptation to compromise with the world hoping to ease the tension that is faced while living here. This was…

Revelation 17

Revelation 17

Revelation 17 – Throughout the next several chapters of Revelation what we’re essentially finding is a Tale of Two Cities and not the Dickens’ classic. The two cities of…