pours out those plagues, they'll be on the floor squealing like little girls. Yeah. Their masculinity will be shown for what it really is - just bravado, yeah. So a real man is a wise man. He finds a place to hide.

My dad was in the british army during the second world war. He was in the royal artillery. In england everything is royal - it's the royal navy, the royal artillery, the royal air force - but he was in the royal artillery and he was in north africa and italy and he described how they, you know, they had guns and they'd shell germans and move on and the germans would find them and shell them and he said, 'son,' - he says - 'Michael, whenwe give up, what we sacrifice is a pittance compared to the sacrifice Jesus has made for us. Tuesday, well, it's Tuesday and we still have seven and a half minutes left. 'Called to be a prophet' - it's never been easy to be a prophet and it wasn't for Amos. Like all the prophets before, he met with opposition, ridicule - you know, the prophets often met with physical abuse and sometimes they were put to death. And so, here's Amos, he goes - and I'm sure he got a lot of this bad language and all those other things, but it's interesting and very sad that in his case his chief antagonist was a person called amaziah.

He was the priest of bethel. He was a spiritual