Boulder Church | Happy Sabbath! We hope you'll stay this week for fellowship lunch.

Boulder Church | This is the judgment that God’s people and His prophets—and the poor, oppressed and exploited they have spoken up for throughout history—have been looking for.

Boulder Church | Whenever the Bible sounds a call to justice—which it does about 2,100 times—it is not merely a call to our best human impulses and efforts, but an invitation to join with God’s intentions for our world and its people, and the work that He is doing and will do to restore and renew His creation.

Boulder Church | Their lack of compassion, with little concern for the needs of others and the systemic unfairness of their society, was a stark contrast to both their self-indulgent lives of luxury and their supposed religious practices

Boulder Church | In Amos’ understanding, the defining feature of the remnant of the people would be the mercy of God.

Boulder Church | Neither God nor His prophet takes delight in these judgments.

Boulder Church | This altar call comes in a different cultural context to that we are familiar with.

Boulder Church | Happy Sabbath!

Boulder Church | Amos was proclaiming the severe mercy of God, who loves both the oppressed and the oppressor, whose justice seeks the restoration of both, but who will act to bring an end to injustice and freedom to those who are oppressed.

Boulder Church | Some Christians seem to interpret every triumph or tragedy—however small—as a blessing from God or an attack of the devil, perhaps less often a punishment from God. To what extent do you agree or not with such a view of our lives and experiences?