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 same scene is played out again and again on the evening news. A murder happens in some quiet suburban neighborhood. Local news teams rush to the scene, filming from a distance the...
"A mother of three discovers her unexpected purpose." That's the one-sentence summary of Dawn, a powerful film by Dave Mahanes and Brent...
We need to be intentional about each moment, each decision, and each interaction.
The opening verses of Jeremiah can be unsettling if you have been reading this book in order. In chapter 39, King Nebuchadnezzar...
“I don’t think I want to do this anymore, Dad.” ...
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...
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...
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...
Do you hear and see God’s name everywhere you go? Often devoid of devotion? Perhaps casually use God’s name yourself? Courteously expressing...
Jeremiah 36 tells the story of something that happened around 604 B.C., after Jeremiah had been prophesying for over two decades. The...
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...
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...
