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...
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...
by Jeremy | Sep 11, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
The first time I saw my daughter’s face, she was still in the womb. We were so eager to catch even a glimpse of our little girl that we paid for the 3D ultrasound—a purchase that, only a year earlier, I would have considered absolutely ridiculous. Why pay extra...
by Jeremy | Aug 21, 2020 | Sabbath Thoughts
Next week will mark the fourteenth anniversary of my baptism. Fourteen years. Almost a decade and a half since I formally accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior and washed away the penalty of my sins with His blood. For me, that anniversary is always a time for...
