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You’re not paranoid if everybody really IS against you—Jeremiah
As a prophet telling people what they didn’t want to hear, Jeremiah was not very popular. See my…
Woe to God’s House!—Mark 13:2
Most Judeans thought their temple, the largest and most magnificent in the ancient world, was impregnable. The temple…
The call and the cost—Jeremiah 1:4-19
God had a plan for your life long before you started learning about it. “Before I formed you…
Against the grain—the prophet Jeremiah
Many people thought that Jeremiah was a stick in the mud, a contrarian, and certainly unpatriotic. He went…
When Most Prophets are Wrong—1 Kings 22
When God gives a promise, we are right to believe it with all our hearts. Some biblical promises,…
Seek the common good (89-second video)
The video appears here; the text follows if you prefer to read it https://youtu.be/X7o_IJe-GHM Sometimes religious people, like…
When you have to stand alone
“Wrap up your garment for action. Get up and tell them everything that I myself command you. Don’t…
Who really speaks for God?—1 Thessalonians 5:21
Paul closes his first letter to the Thessalonians with a series of exhortations. Paul no doubt designed these…