Monday, October 14, 2024
Have you ever had the burden of bringing terrible news to someone? I don’t mean when you tell someone, “I have good news and bad news, what do you want to hear first?” I am talking about a situation where all the news is bad, and you know that simply hearing the news is going… Read more
Friday, October 11, 2024
Philippians 2:3 makes it clear; God promotes those who humble themselves and opposes those who are full of pride. There are moments when we believe we have the right answers. We are convinced we are doing the right thing. Maybe we have a lot of life experience, or we have strong opinions… Read more
Thursday, October 10, 2024
In Jeremiah 10, the prophet is speaking against the idols that Israel created. They looked good – made of silver and gold for a people that likely didn’t have a lot of either. It represented wealth and substance by the metrics of society; it represented the type of security that people wanted in a day-to-day existence… Read more
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
If you read this passage, you know no tables were flipped in Jeremiah 7-9. The flipping of tables did not come until over half a millennia later by a Jewish Rabbi (who happened to be the savior of the world!), named Jesus. It is a common story: Jesus comes running into the temple in Jerusalem,… Read more