judgment – Grace and Peace, Joanne

January 4, 2022December 29, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Hebrews

Hebrews: Definition of Faith

Have you ever felt a small curl of melancholy, or maybe a tendril of fear, or a root of bitterness, or a little flame of anger, asking “Why me?” What does it mean to persevere, to be patient in affliction, to have joy and contentment in every circumstance?

April 23, 2021April 14, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Nahum, God’s Wrath

Take a moment and reflect on the nature of God. Think about one word that you might choose to encompass the totality of God, the overarching portrayal of who God is.

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: The Book of Nahum

To Nahum, God likened the Assyrians to cruel lions, strangling and dragging their prey into their bloody city. Now the righteous lion, the lion of Judah, would put right all the wrong that Assyria had committed.

March 26, 2021March 26, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Zephaniah Look Beyond

Zephaniah 3:17-20 is the fulfillment of human longing. At last, those who love God and have put their faith God, will find themselves fully restored in a glorious life that will be lived fully in communion with God, in the peace, and love, and joy of the Lord.

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Zephaniah, Look Around

Every person has been given the outward revelation of a Creator with eternal power and divine nature, and the inward revelation of God’s righteousness and justice, carried within their own hearts.

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Zephaniah, Look Above

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the Lord’s wrath.

March 1, 2021February 24, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Gospel of John

Gospel of John: Lamb of God Judged

If God did not judge sin it would mean that God was indifferent to the existence of right and wrong, good and evil. But the Lord is not indifferent. God's wrath, grief, and intense pain over sin is the necessary and only right response.

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Habakkuk’s Questions

There is no power in all the physical world or the spiritual realm that is not ultimately under the authority and dominion of Almighty God. Things are not always what they appear to be.