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12/31/2025

On Fuel for the Fires of Revival

TEXT

⁸The high priest Hilkiah told the court secretary Shaphan, “I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s temple,” and he gave the book to Shaphan, who read it. ⁹Then the court secretary Shaphan went to the king and reported, “Your servants have emptied out the silver that was found in the temple and have given it to those doing the work—those who oversee the Lord’s temple.” ¹⁰Then the court secretary Shaphan told the king, “The priest Hilkiah has given me a book,” and Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.

¹¹When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes. ¹²Then he commanded the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, the court secretary Shaphan, and the king’s servant Asaiah, ¹³“Go and inquire of the Lord for me, for the people, and for all Judah about the words in this book that has been found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is kindled against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this book in order to do everything written about us.”

¹⁴So the priest Hilkiah, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the prophetess Huldah, wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District. They spoke with her. ¹⁵She said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: Say to the man who sent you to me, ¹⁶‘This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, fulfilling all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read, ¹⁷because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods in order to anger me with all the work of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’

¹⁸Say this to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord: ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: As for the words that you heard, ¹⁹because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard’—this is the Lord’s declaration. ²⁰‘Therefore, I will indeed gather you to your ancestors, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place.’” Then they reported to the king.

~2 Kings 22.8-20

Title: On Fuel for the Fires of Revival
Text: 2 Kings 22-23
Series: Revival Us Again!
Church: Redeemer Baptist Church, Jonesboro, AR
Date: December 28, 2025

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05/15/2025

On God’s Lament Over False Repentance

By Phillip Powers

TEXT

⁴What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist
and like the early dew that vanishes.
⁵This is why I have used the prophets
to cut them down;
I have killed them with the words from my mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.
⁶For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

⁷But they, like Adam, have violated the covenant;
there they have betrayed me.
⁸Gilead is a city of evildoers,
tracked with bloody footprints.
⁹Like raiders who wait in ambush for someone,
a band of priests murders on the road to Shechem.
They commit atrocities.
¹⁰I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel:
Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.
¹¹A harvest is also appointed for you, Judah.

Title: On God’s Lament Over False Repentance
Text: Hosea 6.4-11
Series: Hosea: A Love Story Like No Other
Church: Redeemer Baptist Church, Jonesboro, AR
Date: April 27, 2025

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03/18/2025

On the Love and the Justice of God

By Phillip Powers

TEXT

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel.

²When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him:

Go and marry a woman of promiscuity,
and have children of promiscuity,
for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity
by abandoning the Lord.

³So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. ⁴Then the Lord said to him:

Name him Jezreel, for in a little while
I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel
on the house of Jehu
and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
⁵On that day I will break the bow of Israel
in Jezreel Valley.

⁶She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him:

Name her Lo-ruhamah,
for I will no longer have compassion
on the house of Israel.
I will certainly take them away.
⁷But I will have compassion on the house of Judah,
and I will deliver them by the Lord their God.
I will not deliver them by bow, sword, or war,
or by horses and cavalry.

⁸After Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son. ⁹Then the Lord said:

Name him Lo-ammi,
for you are not my people,
and I will not be your God.
¹⁰Yet the number of the Israelites
will be like the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not my people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.
¹¹And the Judeans and the Israelites
will be gathered together.
They will appoint for themselves a single ruler
and go up from the land.
For the day of Jezreel will be great.
2 Call your brothers: My People
and your sisters: Compassion.

Title: On the Love and Justice of God
Text: Hosea 1.1-2.1; 3.1-5
Series: Hosea: A Love Story Like No Other
Church: Redeemer Baptist Church, Jonesboro, AR
Date: March 9, 2025

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01/16/2023

On the Message of Habakkuk

By Phillip Powers

TEXT

1 The pronouncement that the prophet Habakkuk saw.

²How long, Lord, must I call for help
and you do not listen
or cry out to you about violence
and you do not save?
³Why do you force me to look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Oppression and violence are right in front of me.
Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.
⁴This is why the law is ineffective
and justice never emerges.
For the wicked restrict the righteous;
therefore, justice comes out perverted.

~Habakkuk 1.1-4

¹⁶I heard, and I trembled within;
my lips quivered at the sound.
Rottenness entered my bones;
I trembled where I stood.
Now I must quietly wait for the day of distress
to come against the people invading us.
¹⁷Though the fig tree does not bud
and there is no fruit on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though the flocks disappear from the pen
and there are no herds in the stalls,
¹⁸yet I will celebrate in the Lord;
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
¹⁹The Lord my Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like those of a deer
and enables me to walk on mountain heights!

For the choir director: on stringed instruments.

~Habakkuk 3.16-19

Text: Habakkuk 1.1-4, 3.16-19
Series: Supply Preaching
Church: Fitzgerald Crossing Baptist Church, Wynne, AR
Date: January 15, 2023

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