And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by; the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword” [Amos 7:8-9].1 As the prophet, Amos, records his words sometime between 785-745 BCE, the house of Israel has a significant problem; it has broadly lost its spiritual connection with Yahweh. You see, Israel had been living in what…
"Dispatches to the Front" -- a collection of theological meditations by Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., M.Div.