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Text: Luke 20:19-26 The last thing that I’d want to do is wade into a political mine field, but the text before me today contains the famous reply of Jesus, “Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar’s, and to God, what is God’s.” It is a reply that asks us at a fundamental level to examine priorities. . . . → Read More: Life Priorities Text: Jeremiah 29:1-14 Jeremiah prophesied for forty years or so – the judgement is coming, a day of the Lord is at hand. But there were a large number of prophets in the land. The larger bunch of them with that title shouted peace! prosperity! And they had the better share of the argument for . . . → Read More: Exile and Prosperity Text: Jeremiah 22:13-23 The Spirit of God is often pictured as the Wind. We do not see the wind itself, but we see its effects. The frightening thing about that what happens when we lose the ability to recognize the true prophetic Word from the wind itself? Martin Luther worried about such a happening. . . . → Read More: Shepherded by the Wind Last week I know I was hoping to get back to writing these more regularly as we got into Jeremiah and Romans. My wife is roughly 8 months pregnant and is starting to run out of steam much quicker. Short answer is that the family has been taking more time of necessity. I . . . → Read More: The Law, repentance and hypocrisy – and a quick note Text: Romans 1:16-25 (also Jeremiah 2:11-13) Between being sick and what seemed like a random bunch of texts the last couple of weeks in devotion have not been very fruitful. It looks like the daily readings are bringing a couple of heavyweights out for a little while. Jeremiah will be the OT reading and . . . → Read More: Context – Arguing from the lesser to the greater |
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