Amos: An Ordinary Man with an Extraordinary Message (Focus on the Bible) ol-textbooks--ot-211-otht-1 Watts (Regent College) on Mark

Watts (Regent College) on Mark

Francis Turretin (1623-87) has been called “the best expounder of the doctrine of the Reformed Church” (Samuel Alexander)

who relentlessly pursued his people and entered history in order to redeem them for himself

Colin Kruse

I can honestly say

Amos: An Ordinary Man with an Extraordinary Message (Focus on the Bible) ol-textbooks--ot-211-otht-1 Watts (Regent College) on MarkAmos had no claim to fame. He was not even a son of a prophet. Neither did he have any formal training to be a prophet. Yet God called him out from a career of overseeing herdsman. He was sent out from the south to bring the Lord's message to Samaria in the Northern Kingdom. Amos was called to speak at the time of national disunity; military superiority; economic prosperity and religious activity. Amos speaks of a famine. However it is not food the