{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily + Weekly by Vince Miller","slug":"the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491","podcast_index_feed_id":525491,"rss_url":"https://resolute.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://beresolute.org/vincemillerspeaker","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/5/1/7/9517476838cac621d959afa2a1bf1c87/Vince_Libsyn_Square.jpg","author":"Vince Miller","episode_count":997,"summary":"Get ready to be inspired and transformed with Vince Miller, a renowned author and speaker who has dedicated his life to teaching through the Bible. With over 36 books under his belt, Vince has become a leading voice in the field of manhood, masculinity, fatherhood, mentorship, and leadership. He has been featured on major video and radio platforms such as RightNow Media, Faithlife TV, FaithRadio, and YouVersion, reaching men all over the world. Vince's Daily Devotional has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of providing them with a daily dose of inspiration and guidance. With over 30 years of experience in ministry, Vince is the founder of Resolute. www.vincemiller.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T14:18:48.245715+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491"},"episode":{"title":"What God Actually Wants From You | Hosea 6:6","slug":"what-god-actually-wants-from-you-hosea-6-6","published_at":"2026-06-18T05:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491/what-god-actually-wants-from-you-hosea-6-6","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491","url":"https://resolute.libsyn.com/what-god-actually-wants-from-you-hosea-66","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/resolute/What_God_Actually_Wants_From_You__Hosea_6_6.mp3?dest-id=387547","summary":"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 people. In this text, God is not rejecting worship. He is exposing counterfeit repentance and hypocritical worship. Sacrifice and burnt offerings were not pagan practices. They were part of the worship God Himself had established under the covenant. Burnt offerings in the temple involved placing an animal on the altar as a whole offering to God. It symbolized surrender, atonement, devotion, and the need for a substitute because sin deserves judgment. But the problem was not the system; it was the people. They were bringing sacrifices and leaving with their lives unchanged. They were performing rituals while living in rebellion. They wanted the appearance of devotion without the reality of a relationship. And God says no. God says he desires two things here. First, love. \"I desire steadfast love…\" The Hebrew word here is hesed . It means loyal covenant love—faithfulness rooted in relationship. Not passing emotion. Not occasional interest. Second, he desires knowledge. \"the knowledge of God…\" Intimate relational knowledge. To know God is to trust Him, obey Him, walk with Him, and live in responsive fellowship with Him. The point is that God is after covenant love and intimate fellowship with him, which produces ongoing change in our lives. That is why Jesus quotes this verse when confronting religious leaders ( Matthew 9:13; 12:7 ). They had plenty of activity, but without mercy, love,…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":254,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491/episodes/what-god-actually-wants-from-you-hosea-6-6/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-weekly-by-vince-miller-525491/what-god-actually-wants-from-you-hosea-6-6.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}