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Week 1 Overview
Meet Amos and Hosea before you begin the five daily readings. Start with the video, then choose a brief or deep-dive audio overview.
This week’s big picture
A prosperous kingdom sings loudly while justice is being trampled. Amos turns the spotlight home, then Hosea makes covenant unfaithfulness painfully personal.
Five daily readings
Read to the largest break on the ending page, following the official plan. Bible references are teaching maps for readers using their own Bible.
Prefer the complete guide? Open the PDF ↓Watch for these themes
- 01Justice and worship
- 02Covenant betrayal
- 03Return and restoration
Things worth noticing
Watch Amos tighten the circle of judgment from the nations to Israel. Listen for Hosea’s names of judgment being answered by mercy.
Listen & watch
Week 1 media shelf
Play this week’s supported audio and videos here, or open each original source.
Conversation and devotion
The four questions for Week 1
Begin with your own response. Then use each devotional reflection to return to the text and keep the conversation moving.
What stood out to you this week?
The spotlight turns home
Amos begins with the sins of Israel's neighbors, then turns the same searching word toward Israel. What stands out is the distance between crowded worship and neglected justice, followed by Hosea's startling promise that names of judgment will be answered by mercy.
Read Amos 1:3-2:16; 5:21-24; Hosea 2:14-23 ↗Was there anything confusing or troubling?
A troubling family picture
Hosea's marriage and family imagery is meant to feel painful because covenant betrayal is not a small mistake. Sit honestly with the discomfort, ask what the image reveals about idolatry, and resist pretending that every hard detail becomes easy after one reading.
Read Hosea 1:2-2:13 ↗Did anything make you think differently about God?
The God who still calls
God's warnings are not divine background noise. He speaks because He wants His people to hear, return, and live; even after exposing sin, He promises to restore from His own faithful and compassionate heart.
Read Amos 4:6-12; 9:11-15 ↗How might this change the way we live?
Close the worship gap
Let God's plumb line measure weekday life as well as Saturday or Sunday worship. Ask where comfort has dulled compassion, where power is used for self, and where repentance can become concrete love for a neighbor.
Read Amos 5:14-15; 7:7-9 ↗