Do you remember how you landed your last job? ...
My muse is not happy with me.
After decades of faithful ministry as God’s prophet, Jeremiah’s life wasn’t turning out as he might have hoped.
Willard Wigan is a micro-sculptor. He uses a tiny surgical blade to shape figures out of gold and grains of sand. The work is so precise that he carves between heartbeats.
Harold Sikkema is a recent honors graduate of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. He met L.L. Barkat...
Jeremiah 37 offers a glimpse of the prophet’s around 597 B.C.. Babylon already held sway over Judah politically, even as it laid siege to Jerusalem. Moreover, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had...
I drove east, two states away, to watch a man die. This shouldn't have come as a shock. I was a news reporter and had covered death almost daily for many years. I...
Do you hear and see God’s name everywhere you go? Often devoid of devotion? Perhaps casually use God’s name yourself? Courteously expressing...
Your hands are two personal valets that wait on you with absolute commitment. They perform all of your mundane tasks with tender care. Tying shoes, buttoning shirts, brushing your teeth, and fixing...
Jeremiah 36 tells the story of something that happened around 604 B.C., after Jeremiah had been prophesying for over two decades. The...
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...
A few years back I was advised by a mentor to toughen up, to challenge people more. ...
In the fall of 2000 I started writing a novel. The only creative writing I had done up to that point in my life was angst-ridden teenage poems and journal entries. I don’t...
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...
Psalm 117 is a simple, short call to worship. It is directed, not only at the people of Israel, but at “all you nations” (117:1). It calls all people on earth to worship...
I don't know what is true or noble or pure or lovely about zombies, but I love zombies.
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...
For today's family/parenting post, we invited HCB member Mary E. DeMuth, author of Thin Places, to write about the sensitive issue of abuse... ...
