Come Follow Me: Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah
Reading the Old Testament often means reading prophecies about destruction. The Lord frequently called prophets to warn the wicked that...
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Come Follow Me
Recordings of the weekly Come Follow Me lessons.
Beachside Ward: Text
Beachside Ward: Welcome
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Jonah; Micah
Jonah was on a ship headed for Tarshish. There’s nothing wrong with sailing to Tarshish, except that it is far away from Nineveh, where...
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Amos; Obadiah
God chose Abraham’s seed to be His covenant people so that they would “be a blessing” to all people (see Genesis 12:2–3). But instead, by...
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Hosea 1–6; 10–14; Joel
Israel’s covenant with the Lord was meant to be so deep and meaningful that the Lord compared it to a marriage. The covenant, like a...
- Nov 6, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Daniel 1-6
Most likely no one will ever threaten to throw you into a fiery furnace or a den of lions because of your faith in Jesus Christ. But none...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47
Ezekiel was a prophet in exile. Along with other Israelites, he had been captured and sent to Babylon several years before Jerusalem was...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Jeremiah 30–33; 36; Lamentations 1; 3
When the Lord first called Jeremiah to be a prophet, He told him that his mission would be “to root out, and to pull down” (Jeremiah...
- Oct 13, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Jeremiah 1–3; 7; 16–18; 20
At first, Jeremiah didn’t think he would make a good prophet. “Behold, I cannot speak,” he protested when the Lord first called him...
- Oct 13, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Isaiah 58–66
Early in His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ visited a synagogue in Nazareth, the village where He was raised. There He stood to read from...
- Oct 13, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Isaiah 50–57
Throughout his ministry, Isaiah spoke of a mighty deliverer (see, for example, Isaiah 9:3–7). These prophecies would have been especially...
- Oct 13, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Isaiah 40–49
“Comfort” is the first word of Isaiah chapter 40. It marks the beginning of a different tone, a different emphasis in the prophet’s...
- Oct 13, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Isaiah 13–14; 24–30; 35
One of the things the Lord asks prophets to do is to warn about the consequences of sin. In the case of Old Testament prophets, this...
- Oct 13, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Isaiah 1–12
Even if this is your first time reading the book of Isaiah, you might find passages that sound familiar. That’s because, of all Old...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Proverbs 1–4; 15–16; 22; 31; Ecclesiastes 1–3; 11–12
In the first chapter of the book of Proverbs, we find these words: “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Psalms 102–103; 110; 116–119; 127–128; 135–139; 146–150
The traditional Jewish name for the book of Psalms is a Hebrew word that means “praises.” That word, Tehillim, is also related to the...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Psalms 49–51; 61–66; 69–72; 77–78; 85–86
The writers of the Psalms shared deeply personal feelings in their poetry. They wrote about feeling discouraged, afraid, and remorseful....
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Psalms 1–2; 8; 19–33; 40; 46
We don’t know for certain who wrote the Psalms. Some have been attributed to King David, but for most of them, the writers remain...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Come Follow Me: Job 1–3; 12–14; 19; 21–24; 38–40; 42
It’s natural to wonder why bad things happen to good people—or for that matter, why good things happen to bad people. Why would God, who...
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