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Election Year Exiles
When we read the New Testament in present day America, it is always with a degree of imaginative removal, like watching a period piece on PBS. We cock our head: ...
Read More October 7: Wall of Bronze
Jeremiah 14-15, Ecclesiastes 5, John 2:12-25, James 3:13-18 Jeremiah 14-15: The section begins with a problem. There is an economic downturn, a serious recession, brought on this agrarian society by that terror of ...
Read More October 6: Swimming Against the Stream
Jeremiah 12-13, Ecclesiastes 4, John 2:1-11, James 3:1-12 Jeremiah 12-13: Jeremiah has a question for God, a question that many of us have asked on occasion too. This question (12:1) is essentially, “Why ...
Read More October 5: Old and New
Jeremiah 10-11, Ecclesiastes 3:16-22, John 1:43-51, James 2:14-26 Jeremiah 10-11: All true spirituality begins with an open ear to what God is saying. “Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you” (10:1). ...
Read More October 4: Knowing and Doing
Jeremiah 7-9, Ecclesiastes 3:1-15, John 1:35-42, James 2:1-13 Jeremiah 7-9: Jeremiah is told to make a public pronouncement—to stand “in the gate of the LORD’s house” (7:2). He is publishing a press release ...
Read More October 3: Proclaim God's Word
Jeremiah 5-6, Ecclesiastes 2:17-26, John 1:29-34, James 1:19-27 Jeremiah 5-6: The prophet depicts a running to and fro on the streets of the city looking for just one person who is doing what ...
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