by Jonathan Nale | Nov 27, 2025 | Church
Yesterday we asked the question: Is our relationship with God conditional or unconditional? Does our standing with the Lord depend on our faithfulness to the Lord, or on the Lord’s faithfulness to us? Christians often say things like: my relationship with the Lord...
by Jonathan Nale | Nov 26, 2025 | Church
Ephraim is a faithful Jewish man who lives in the 4th century BC. He has a business, a wife and 4 kids. Ephraim is faithful to go to the temple and he keeps the feast days and the law of Moses with all seriousness. He makes sure his children do what good Jewish...
by Jonathan Nale | Nov 25, 2025 | Church
The word from the prophet Jeremiah is to return to the Lord. His ministry lasts for decades and yet the people would not, and did not repent. Jeremiah knew this was going to happen, remember the Lord told him at the beginning that the people would not listen, and now,...
by Jonathan Nale | Nov 24, 2025 | Church
READ 3:12-18 The appeal to come back or to return to the Lord, comes three times in these verses, 12, 14, and 22 and Jeremiah does so with a bit of a linguistic twist. Literally he says, “Turn back, turn away Israel.” Now, before we get to the condition and the...
by Jonathan Nale | Nov 22, 2025 | Church
[As we look at his section of Jeremiah, again I would ask that you get your Bible out and follow along!] Perhaps you have read, or watched a show, or even more powerfully seen in person or experienced, someone, let’s say a son or daughter, who realizes that they have...
by Jonathan Nale | Nov 21, 2025 | Church
Last time we saw that the people of God are charged with a triple failure: pursuing and becoming worthless, a waste of God’s gifts and a leadership that is clueless! Jeremiah’s indictment against them continues: Look at 2:9-13 Here is the Lord’s contention, a charge...
