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...

[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...

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...

God tells Jeremiah to take a walk. It was not far to Jerusalem, only a few miles and the prophet had made this journey countless times but this one must have seemed longer…much longer. He had to go to Jerusalem and proclaim to them the message that we just read. As we...

In our day we have all kinds of folks defending blatant sin even thinking to do so on theological grounds, that is, using the Bible. But what they are really doing is picking and choosing which parts of the Bible are true, and which parts they will ignore or explain...

It wasn’t that long ago that I preached through the book of Jeremiah. I am revisiting the prophet for our devotions together due to the profound contemporary nature of Jeremiah’s prophecy. I am not going to be including the text reading, as some of them will be rather...

Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5...

We have talked before about the “new immediacy”, which is meant that the past is irrelevant and the future is too long to wait for, and so, all that matters is the now. The urgency of the present pushes upon us and to the point that there is an entire sub-culture that...

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. 3 Though an army encamp against me, my...

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These...