Getting started with Amos
1. The central message of Amos
2. Who, what, when, where, why?
3. Characters
4. Biblical theology
5. Systematic theology
6. Key words and phrases
7. New Testament connections
8. Key questions and debates
9. Using Amos evangelistically
10. Structure
11. Understanding the text
12. Suggested teaching outlines
Before you go …
Appendix: Further reading
Appendix: Glossary

Jeremy Meeks is the Director and Lead Instructor of the Chicago Course on Preaching. He is also the Assistant Pastor for Ministry Apprenticeships at Christ Church Chicago. Before moving to Chicago he served as a senior pastor in Nashville, TN. Before that, he and his wife were church-planting missionaries in Nicaragua. Jeremy did his undergraduate work at Liberty University. He earned an MA in Bioethics from Trinity Graduate School. His thesis was on the distinction between robot and human bodies. He went on to complete a PhD in Theological Ethics from the University of Aberdeen. He is married to Marjorie, and they have two children, Alexis and Jake.

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