Word of Salvation - May 2011   LAMENTING GOD’S JUDGMENT, John de Hoog (Sermon 2 in a series on Micah)   Text – Micah 1:8-16   Many of you will have some idea of what true Middle Eastern lament looks like. You will have seen snatches of it on TV, from widows in Iraq mourning the senseless death of their beloved husbands to pictures of Jews lamenting as they are being dragged out of their settlements in the Gaza strip. In Micah’s day, when people mourned, they often shaved their hair, wore sackcloth, sat in ashes, wept, and sometimes even employed...

Word of Salvation - June 2011   Two ways in which prophecies of judgment can do people good, and two ways in which they can be fulfilled” By Rev. John de Hoog (Sermon 3 in a series on Micah)   Text – Micah 2   In September 1981 the Rev Jerry Falwell was speaking somewhere in America, and he suggested that God could judge America, perhaps with Soviet military might, unless the nation repented of its sin and turned to him.   Now remember the context. The Soviet Union was still intact and was the great enemy. Jerry Falwell, who died...