by Jeremy | Dec 11, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
Earlier this year, my little Primrose went through a particularly rough sleep regression. She had a hard time falling asleep—which meant Mary and I had a hard time falling asleep, too. That got me thinking about a subject that is near and dear to my heart. It’s...
by Jeremy | Nov 13, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
Let’s recap what we’ve learned from parts one and two of this series. We know that the nations God sent Israel to annihilate were corrupt in ways we can only begin to imagine, and that they had no intention of changing. We know that sin, unchecked and...
by Jeremy | Nov 6, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
(This post is part of a series. Start with part one here.) We conflate a lot of other things with love. Love is tolerance. Love is acceptance. Love is unqualified approbation of anything we choose to do. Love is warm and fuzzy at all times, because love is blind. Love...
by Jeremy | Oct 30, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
In his first epistle, John writes, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (1 John 4:8). In Deuteronomy, God who is love says, “I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and...
by Jeremy | Oct 23, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
“My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here” (John 18:36). I’ve been thinking about that lately. The Jews of the first...
