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, This Week's Thought
“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...
by Jeremy | Sep 18, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
What a year. I just… What. A. Year. Way back in 2019 (which was, by my count, just 83 short months ago), I remember joking that 2020 was going to be a great year for hindsight jokes. “In retrospect, we really should have seen this year coming”—that sort of...
