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The God Who Never Gives Up on You: Pre-Exilic Prophets

6/29/202659 min

On today’s episode of Back Porch Theology, Lisa and Allison are joined by Kristi McLelland for a rich conversation about the Minor Prophets, with a special focus on the book of Hosea. Together, they trace the threads of Hosea’s powerful love story—a living illustration of God's relentless pursuit of His people. While the Minor Prophets contain sobering warnings and calls to repentance, they ultimately point to a God who never gives up on His people and whose story culminates in redemption through Jesus. Pull up a chair and join us—we're so glad you're here.

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Clips

Bought Back in Love
Judgment Expires, Restoration Lasts
Justice Rolls Like River
Fearless Under the Fig Tree
Scarcity and $1.07 Coffee
Desert as Date Night

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Lisa Harper· Host0:00

    You know, we've talked oftentimes about how this divine love story we call the Bible is not a museum piece, and it's not, um, some sanitized literature. It's divine, and yet it includes all these stories of real people with real problems who needed a real savior and real redemption. And sometimes we talk about, uh, some of the stories in here and some of the stories in real life that, um, that are difficult. There's hardship. There's heartache in there. The living hope is Jesus. He is a redeemer. But we just wanna let you know that this episode might, um, might not be appropriate for littles. If you've got some littles, I wouldn't have them listen to this episode of Back Porch Theology because some of the heartache we talk about today is just more of an adult theme. Uh, we never, ever do that in, for shock value or clickbait. We do that to point to the fact that our God can redeem and restore everything. But I would just say, today's episode, um, just, just, uh, watch it wisely. Sometimes I think- Yeah ... we have made the Bible a museum piece.

  2. Allison Allen· Host1:06

    That's right.

  3. Lisa Harper· Host1:07

    Yeah. And we forget, God breathed this.

  4. Allison Allen· Host1:09

    Yeah. He did.

  5. Lisa Harper· Host1:10

    This is holy.

  6. Allison Allen· Host1:11

    Mm-hmm.

  7. Lisa Harper· Host1:11

    But it's not distant.

  8. Allison Allen· Host1:13

    Yeah.

  9. Lisa Harper· Host1:13

    The narrative, He gave us stories so that we could go, oh- Mm-hmm.

  10. Allison Allen· Host1:19

    Mm-hmm ...

  11. Lisa Harper· Host1:19

    I can find that shadow in my own life- That's right ... of when I've been- Yeah ... rebellious.

  12. Allison Allen· Host1:24

    Mm-hmm.

  13. Lisa Harper· Host1:24

    And God spoke a love story over me, because the end of their

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