The Main Text: The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying, “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and...
Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-6 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Come, go down to the...
David Zimmerman has survived leaps of faith, but will this one work out? Read about his recent job change and be encouraged.
I sat alone in my car on the side of a four-lane highway somewhere in rural Indiana. Sheets of rain were falling from bloated clouds, forming muddy puddles in the early summer cornfields that...
The Israelites in exile in Babylon were most likely not expecting to hear this word from the Lord. In fact, they were hearing quite different things from other prophets. They expected deliverance, not this.
When I was a kid, my parents decided to build their own home. It was a marvelous plan – a beautiful house...
Although the book of Jeremiah includes a fifty-second chapter, the prophet’s messages come to an end in chapter fifty one. Most of this chapter contains an ongoing prophecy of the fall of Babylon....
In Jeremiah 47, the Lord promised to destroy what is left of the Philistines of Gaza.
Most of Jeremiah 46 is directed, not at the Jews, but at the Egyptians. In this chapter, God promises to punish Egypt at the hand of Babylon, reminding us that God is the...
At the end of Jeremiah 41, the remnant of the Jewish people left by the Babylonians in Judah “prepared to leave for Egypt” (41:17). They were understandably fearful of the Babylonians, especially...
The opening verses of Jeremiah can be unsettling if you have been reading this book in order. In chapter 39, King Nebuchadnezzar...
The beginning of Jeremiah 39 tells the sad tale of the fall of Jerusalem.
After decades of faithful ministry as God’s prophet, Jeremiah’s life wasn’t turning out as he might have hoped.
During the forty years of Jeremiah’s prophetic ministry, the Lord spoke through his prophet in various ways in an effort to communicate his will to the Jewish people. Jeremiah 35 contains an...
Jeremiah 33 begins with bad news for Jerusalem: the Babylonians will soon defeat and destroy the city because of the wickedness of its inhabitants. But the chapter progresses quickly from bad to...
The early chapters of Jeremiah featured warnings for the Israelites to stop their idolatrous rejection of God, lest he judge them in a devastating way. Then, the prophecies of Jeremiah became even...
In Jeremiah 31, the prophet reveals God’s vision for the future of his people. This vision peers beyond their immediate circumstances and exile in Babylon. It foresees the time when the Lord will...
Jeremiah 31 is a vision of the future day when the Lord restores his people, bringing them back to Israel. Not one of God’s people will be excluded from this return from exile...
Because, for centuries, the Jews had consistently disobeyed the Lord, worshiping idols and rejecting justice, he finally sent the Babylonians to sack Jerusalem and take the finest of her people...
Though we may have little opportunity to impact major structures of our society, we can touch our neighbors and colleagues. We can...
