When silence is not golden!
The avalanche of dealings we have had these past weeks with sin, impending judgment and the call for the people of God to be so different from their neighbors in their values and conduct that they are a bunch of God's "weirdos" gets another installment today! Amos again leads off with his challenge to "Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour (it)." Paul follows him up by reminding Timothy that he has suffered for the truth he has taught often even at the hands of those one would have expected to support him (Cf. 2 Corinthians 11:21-29).