<span class="TextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0">The Biblical prophets are often cited but do we really know what they mean and how to read them? The prophets were full of passion - rage, love, hope, and desolation - and their words can both wound and heal. Many feel their value is only in what can be read as predicting Jesus and that they are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0">largely irrel</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0">vant</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0"> now, but we have </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0">largely forgotten</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0"> how to read them, to whom they are speaking, and responsibly apply what they are saying to our own contemporary context. For this day, we will explore some introductory work on reading the prophets and then delve </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW21788657 BCX0">more deeply into the texts themselves, looking specifically at passages from Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, and Micah amongst selections from a few others as time allows.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW21788657 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span>

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