The Daily + Weekly by Vince Miller

Welcome to  The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 9:17 : My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. —  Hosea 9:17 There is a line you don't want to cross with God—the moment when He stops pursuing. Hosea says it...

A nation doesn't dry up overnight—it happens when culture slowly replaces God. Summary Hosea 9 is a sobering warning about what happens when God's people allow culture to disciple them instead of truth. Israel slowly adopted the values, pleasures, and compromises of the surrounding nations until their spiritual life dried up from the inside out. The chapter warns that hidden spiritual roots can di...

Welcome to The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call Project23 . Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is   Hosea 9:13-16: Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Every evil o...

The hardest person a man will ever lead is himself. In this short teaching from The Armory of Leadership, Vince Miller challenges Christian men to confront the internal battle of leadership: pride, sin, resistance, and the heart that must first be surrendered to Christ. Before a man can lead his family, church, workplace, or circle of influence, he must first let God forge him from the inside out....

Welcome to  The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 9:10-12 : Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became de...

Welcome to  The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 9:7-9 : The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred. The prophet is the watchm...

Welcome to  The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 9:5-6 : What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord? For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall pos...

Welcome to  The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 9:3-4 : They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not ple...

Welcome to  The Daily. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 9:1-2 : Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors. Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and...

The storm you're asking God to stop… might be the one you planted. Summary: Hosea 8 delivers a hard truth: you don't just experience storms—you often sow them. Israel planted rebellion through empty religion, self-made authority, idolatry, compromise, and forgetfulness of God, and the consequences returned with greater force. The same principle still applies today—what is sown privately will event...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 8:5-6 : I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? For it is from Israel; a craftsm...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 8:4 : They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction....

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Read more about our mission to teach every verse of the bible in what we call  Project23 . Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal. Our text today is  Hosea 8:1-3 : Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 7:16 : They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.  —  Hosea 7:16 Why does it somet...

Self-destruction rarely happens all at once—it happens one repeated step at a time. Summary Hosea 7 exposes the slow path of self-destruction through seven repeated patterns that ruin lives, homes, and nations. It begins by ignoring the sin God reveals and continues through feeding unchecked desires, celebrating corruption, living divided, drifting unnoticed, trusting false saviors, and refusing t...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 7:13-15 : Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds;...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 7:11-12 : Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense , calling to Egypt, going to Assyria. As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the re...

Welcome to The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your Hosea Scripture Journal right now. Our text today is   Hosea 7:8-10: Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned . Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 7:6-7 : For with hearts  like an oven  they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fa...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 7:4-5 : They are all adulterers; they are  like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretc...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Have you become calloused to sin? Our text today is  Hosea 7:1-3 : when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside. But they do not consid...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 6:10-11 : In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled. For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I restore the fortunes of my people, —  Hosea 6:10-11 What if the thi...

Saying sorry isn't the same as repenting—and Hosea 6 exposes the difference. Summary In Hosea 6, the people finally say the right words and appear ready to return to God, but God exposes that their repentance is only superficial. Temporary emotion, religious activity, and repeated apologies are not the same as true surrender and lasting change. Real repentance addresses not just behavior but the d...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 6:7-9 : But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me. Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood. As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to...

Welcome to  The Daily , where we study the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, every day. Grab your  Hosea Scripture Journal  right now. Our text today is  Hosea 6:6 : For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. —  Hosea 6:6 This verse, and others like it, is one of the clearest answers in all of Scripture about what God wants from his peo...