God’s covenant with Israel is stated in Leviticus twenty-six, both the blessing of obedience and retribution of disobedience; like Deuteronomy twenty-eight listening to God’s voice, obeying His commandments brings blessing, but not obeying the Lord’s voice and His...
He is risen! Passover has passed. Our Lord, the first-fruit of harvest, was celebrated on Resurrection Sunday. Next, is our Night of Praise – The Song of the Lamb –this Wednesday, as we finish the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Once Jesus had obtained for us eternal...
We are in Acts, James, 1 Peter, and 2 Peter, this week. In two weeks, we will begin the New Testament for our second time. We continue our journey through Leviticus and Psalms. Priests, prophets, and kings are confronting Jeremiah, but God stills pleads with the...
In these chapters of Jeremiah, we see the Lord speaking more forcefully. He is determined to punish Israel for their adultery (idolatry) and stubborn dictates of their hearts and refusing to listen and hear God’s words. Jeremiah has his third crisis of questioning...
Sunday, we will celebrate Resurrection Sunday! –the day we were raised from the dead with Jesus. I know that for many, it may not feel like resurrection from the dead is our reality, but it is. It is, because even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins, God made...
When we read the bible, we are doing more than reading facts, we are encountering God. The word that He spoke was made flesh, and brought forth all creation. Jesus, the Word, upholds and gathers all things together in one. I am finding that as I read the scriptures,...
Jeremiah Chapters 7 – 12 are filled with many conflicts as the Lord tries to bring Israel to acknowledge their backsliding hypocrisy. Israel is smug. They have a temple, a covenant, and the Lord as their God, but they have wandered in their hearts far from Him. They...
As we approach Passover next Wednesday, we enter into the first two feasts: Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. We, as Christ’ body, have been grafted into these feasts as Christ is our Passover Lamb. “Behold! the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”...
Last Thursday, we launched a nine-week blog title “Jeremiah and America” to correspond with our reading each week through Thursday. In the first six chapters, the Lord has called Jeremiah to show Israel it’s departure from the covenant that the Lord had made....
In the Fall of 2019, I felt the nudge to read the end of Jeremiah. We were in Washington DC visiting our daughter and family. The elections had not yet taken place, but there was swirling in the air. I read the last twenty-seven chapters. As I did, I was dumbfounded...
