Bible, fear, God, grace, idols, Jeremiah, mercy, sin
Yesterday we looked at Jeremiah 2 and saw ourselves in Israel’s rebellion. Like the Israelites, sometimes we choose to abandon God and go find substitute gods. We stop trusting the Lord and trust ourselves instead. We lose our awe of the Lord; we harden our...
Bible, God, idols, Jeremiah, Romans, sin, worship
One thing I love about the Bible is that it’s about me. And we all know how much I love me. I’m my favorite subject. I was reading Jeremiah 2 and 3 yesterday and saw myself in nearly every verse. That’s really bad news if you know anything about...
believe, Bible, faith, God, Joshua
Sometimes the Old Testament seems irrelevant. I yawned my way through the dividing of the Promised Land among the tribes of Israel (Joshua 13-21). And when I was just about to nod off, one gem of a verse caught my heart and made all that boring reading worth it....
1 Corinthians, 1 Samuel, 1 Timothy, Acts, believe, Bible, Deuteronomy, faith, God, Heaven, idols, Jesus, John, Judges, Leviticus, Luke, Numbers, obedience, tolerance, universalism, worship
There is a popular idea out there that it doesn’t matter how you choose to worship, as long as you are sincere. Within this idea is an unspoken conclusion that, somehow, no matter which religion turns out to be right, the god(s) of that religion will honor the...
Bible, Bible study, Deuteronomy, God, Joshua, quiet time
When we miss the point of reading the Bible, sometimes we ask ourselves (and those in spiritual authority over us) why we have to read the Bible everyday. “Show me in the Bible where we are commanded to have daily quiet times,” we say, looking for a way to...
