The Hardened Heart


Jeremiah 47-49 The soft earth nourishes seeds, yet some seeds fail to germinate even when given all the right conditions. Judas had walked, talked, ate, and enjoyed the fellowship of Jesus and the other eleven disciples, but his seed failed to germinate. Like Judas, the nations of Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, and Elam saw […]

The Gospel Then and Now


Jeremiah 43-44 Israel had come from captivity to freedom, yet they wished to return to Egypt. What irony and foolishness is this! In 1776 our nation was born out of conflict and bondage to a foreign government. Yet here in 2020, we find some that want us to return to that same bondage. They burn, […]

Hypocrisy!


Jeremiah 40 to 42 After the siege ended, Nebuchadnezzar had left a small contingent in the land to care for it. They came to Jeremiah, the prophet, seeking God’s counsel about what they should do.  Standing before him, they said: “Please pray to the Lord “your” God that He will tell us where we should […]

Ebed who????


Jeremiah 37 -39 Novels and mysteries have cliff hanger episodes to keep us riveted to the plot. Jeremiah’s book is no different, and chapter by chapter, we are privy to the plans of the villains and heroes. The villains don’t believe Jeremiah the prophet, and so plot to keep the cowardly vacillating king, Zedekiah, from […]

Principle: Remove the Rotten Figs!


Jeremiah 24 God showed Jeremiah a vision of two baskets of figs to reveal His plan. First, King Nebuchadnezzar rounded up and carted off the most favored craftsmen, the young and wise students. Surely those taken were the worst of the worst or the rotten figs, and the ones left behind were the best of […]

“God’s Message is like a Fire”


Jeremiah 20 Today instead of street-corner preachers, we have live-streamed preachers that tell us all is well IF we send in money to keep that program on the air or buy their books. The years may be different, but people still need to hear what Jeremiah’s placard said: “Repent now!”  The people laughed at Jeremiah’s […]