by Jeremy | Jul 26, 2019 | Sabbath Thoughts
There are few things more discouraging than discovering you’re invisible—that your opinions don’t matter, that no one cares how you feel, that nothing you do is acknowledged or valued by anyone around you. I wonder sometimes if Hagar felt like that. Her...
by Jeremy | Jun 14, 2019 | Sabbath Thoughts
Mount Moriah loomed in the distance, and with each footstep, the mountain seemed to grow bigger and more intimidating. Abraham has spent much of his life wandering, but this journey, these footsteps, were the hardest ones he’d ever taken. Beside him was his son,...
by Jeremy | Apr 5, 2019 | Sabbath Thoughts
The Israelites spent 40 years wandering through the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land. That’s 40 years of setting up camp and taking down camp. Forty. Years. Every time God told them to move, it was a process. Setting up. Taking down. Setting up....
by Jeremy | Mar 8, 2019 | Sabbath Thoughts
“And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, rose from supper...
by Jeremy | Jan 18, 2019 | Sabbath Thoughts
Babies are pretty incompetent. I mean that in the nicest way possible, but it’s true—at least for human babies. The animal kingdom is a whole different story. Take giraffes. When a giraffe gives birth to her calf, the baby falls about six feet and hits the...