by Jeremy | May 20, 2022 | Sabbath Thoughts
I want to take a look at a single verse in the book of Jude. But first, we need to set the scene with some context. We don’t go to the book of Jude very often. In the original Greek, it’s only 461 words long, making it the fifth shortest book of the Bible,...
by Jeremy | May 13, 2022 | Sabbath Thoughts
Last Friday was our tenth anniversary. Ten. Years. Three thousand six hundred fifty-two days since we said, “I do.” A lot has changed in those 3,652 days. The last time I wrote one of these blogs, it was just Mary and me—and now it’s Mary and me and...
by Jeremy | Apr 29, 2022 | Sabbath Thoughts
We forget that, sometimes. It’s easy to think of growth as visible, obvious, easy to point to and say, “There it is.” But it’s not. We see the fruits of growth in others. The byproducts. We don’t see the actual growth, because...
by Jeremy | Apr 8, 2022 | Sabbath Thoughts
Before we say goodnight to Prim, Mary and I take turns every evening to sit beside her and have “chat time.” For about 10 minutes, one of us hangs out in her room and talks about—well, whatever her three-year-old mind feels like talking about. Sometimes we...
by Jeremy | Mar 25, 2022 | Sabbath Thoughts
James doesn’t have a lot of nice things to say about the tongue. He focuses on its destructive capabilities, calling it “a fire, a world of iniquity” that “defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by...