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Playing in the Minor Leagues: A Look at the Minor Prophets
Discover what twelve Old Testament Minor Prophets (Hosea through Malachi) can teach us about the essential game of life. How did they address God's major concerns for the world? How might their insights strike home with us today? Each prophet is presented in easy-to-understand fashion, placing each into historical context and showing connections with New Testament Scriptures. The study includes in-depth commentary and discussion questions for group study.
186 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2017
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Rhoda Preston
3 books3 followersRhoda Preston is a retired elder in the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. She has a doctor of ministry in Biblical Preaching, plays cello in the Cedar Rapids Community Orchestra, is an avid quilter, and loves the color red.
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July 14, 2022
When I began my journey to be a good Christian woman, after being inspired by the publication of my first two Christian fiction books to become a Christian blogger to daily share the words of the Lord. The sharing I now possess had become a passion, before which I was naïve regarding our faith as one could be. I was a child like a young girl starting to go to school to learn everything I could. As I moved from grade to grade, every teacher I had was different, as was the way they taught. Each teacher added another piece of knowledge that I needed to know; looking back at those years; each teacher had a specific role to play in my education, with no teacher being more important than another.
Putting labels on the teachers I had, some individuals might say that depending on the teacher, their role in my education was important or minor. In my education for trying to be a good Christian woman, I read the writings of many individuals, like Luke, Mark, and Matthew, to name three. Sometimes their writings got duplicated; for example, Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12 both speak about doing unto others. And in John 16:24 and Matthew 21:22, we're told to ask, and you will receive. With this duplication of ideas, how can one prophet be more important than another since they all communicate what the Lord wants us to know to become the individuals He wants us to be?
These so-called minor prophets felt strongly enough about specific things they witnessed to write about them and what should be done to remedy them, much like the activists do today. To help her readers understand these prophets, Ms. Preston presents them clearly, and understandable, placing them in terms of the historical aspect they lived in.
In the framework of our existence as Christians, these so-called minor prophets played an important role, much as the major ones did in the jigsawed-puzzled game of life. In having provided her readers with the knowledge of who these prophets were in terms of our faith, I've given Ms. Preston 5 STARS.
Putting labels on the teachers I had, some individuals might say that depending on the teacher, their role in my education was important or minor. In my education for trying to be a good Christian woman, I read the writings of many individuals, like Luke, Mark, and Matthew, to name three. Sometimes their writings got duplicated; for example, Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12 both speak about doing unto others. And in John 16:24 and Matthew 21:22, we're told to ask, and you will receive. With this duplication of ideas, how can one prophet be more important than another since they all communicate what the Lord wants us to know to become the individuals He wants us to be?
These so-called minor prophets felt strongly enough about specific things they witnessed to write about them and what should be done to remedy them, much like the activists do today. To help her readers understand these prophets, Ms. Preston presents them clearly, and understandable, placing them in terms of the historical aspect they lived in.
In the framework of our existence as Christians, these so-called minor prophets played an important role, much as the major ones did in the jigsawed-puzzled game of life. In having provided her readers with the knowledge of who these prophets were in terms of our faith, I've given Ms. Preston 5 STARS.
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