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How the Forgotten Are Brought Home Part 7 of a seven-part series on Hosea 4:6 and the knowledge of God By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org For six posts now we have been standing inside the wreckage of a single sentence, watching a people come quietly undone for want of the knowledge of God. It […]

What We Hand the Children Part 6 of a seven-part series on Hosea 4:6 and the knowledge of God By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org Ask a room full of parents what they most want to leave their children and the list assembles itself quickly. Provision, a home perhaps, an education, a trade to stand

Does God Really Reject and Forget? Part 5 of a seven-part series on Hosea 4:6 and the knowledge of God By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org Let me put the hard part of the verse on the table without dressing it up. After the prophet has finished describing what the priests did, God speaks in

When the People Who Hold the Keys Stop Teaching Part 3 of a seven-part series on Hosea 4:6 and the knowledge of God By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org Picture a famine. The fields have failed, the markets are bare, and people are growing thin behind their own front doors. Now set in the middle

Two Ways to Lose What You Were Given Part 4 of a seven-part series on Hosea 4:6 and the knowledge of God By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org There are two quite different ways to lose something you own. You can decide you no longer want it. You weigh it in your hand, judge it

The Kind of Knowing the Bible Is Talking About Part 2 of a seven-part series on Hosea 4:6 and the knowledge of God By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org Let me introduce you to two people. Both would be called knowledgeable about God by anyone who met them, and yet they could hardly be more

The Verse Everyone Quotes and Almost No One Reads Part 1 of a seven-part series on Hosea 4:6 and the knowledge of God By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org Watch how this line travels. It gets pinned above study desks and printed across the front of conference brochures. It surfaces in sermons as a call

The Wall Is Coming Down Part 6 of 6 • Final Instalment in the series: No Walls. No Masks. No Favourites. By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org When Peter returned to Jerusalem after what had happened in Caesarea, the other believers did not congratulate him. They confronted him. “Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and

God Did Not Change. Peter Did. Part 5 of 6 in the series: No Walls. No Masks. No Favourites. By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org If you read the story of Acts 10 quickly, you could easily walk away thinking that God did something new that day in Caesarea. A vision descended from heaven while

Receiving Face Part 4 of 6 in the series: No Walls. No Masks. No Favourites. By Rev. Promise Ave | promiseave.org Every culture on earth knows how to do it. The posture shifts when someone important enters a room. Conversations recalibrate when titles get mentioned. We make quick, instinctive, barely conscious calculations about who matters