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...
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...
I don't know what is true or noble or pure or lovely about zombies, but I love zombies.
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... ...
A farmer's mule once fell into a broad well. "It's all over," thought the farmer; and, figuring the best thing was to bury the mule right there, he gathered extra workers and began...
As an avid gardener, I’ve often pondered the difference between flowers and weeds. How does one define the term "weed"? Is it a relative designation? What distinguishes a desirable annual or...
My dad told me the story.My husband told me the story.A friend of mine told me the story.In other words, I've heard...
I work for a nonprofit organization and have spent many years of my adult life hovering around the U.S. poverty level. Despite the apparent hardship for a family of four, we are wealthy...
When I was younger, verses like Jeremiah 30:11 perplexed and disturbed me. Of course, I felt encouraged by the fact that God was with his people and would save them. But I wasn't...
Recently I had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Not dramatically bad. Just persistently bad.First my two boys sluiced through the slushy snow and in two minutes flat managed to soak...
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...
I am sitting on the back porch looking out over the meadow behind our house. The sun is high in the sky, its heat tempered by a light breeze. A couple of Grackles...
Jeremiah 28 describes a gripping conflict between two prophets, Jeremiah and Hananiah. The story began in chapter 27, when the Lord told Jeremiah to wear a yoke that symbolized the yoke of...
I’ve been a father for eight years now, but it was only last weekend when I finally figured out what exactly being a father meant.
Jeremiah 27 records several prophetic messages of Jeremiah that were delivered early in the reign of King Zedekiah, around 594 B.C. Though...
As I watch younger Christian leaders today, I remember how much I was once like them. With youth comes enthusiasm, vision, boldness . . . and often arrogance. I think of some things I once said to...
Jeremiah 25 is surely one of the more distressing passages in all of Scripture, for it reveals the imminent judgment of God upon, not just Israel, but all of its neighbors as well.
Sometimes poetry is the only acceptable way to talk about spirituality in the workplace.
