by Jeremy | Apr 3, 2015 | Holy Day
Without the footwashing ceremony, the Passover service would require almost no interaction with our fellow Church members. It would be an intensely private experience—a whole congregation in the same room, eating the bread in silence, drinking the wine in silence,...
by Jeremy | Mar 27, 2015 | Holy Day
It rarely starts with something big. David was just standing on a rooftop. Achan was just following orders. Eve was just hungry. Everyone “was just” at some point. That’s where it starts: in our court. On our terms. Under our control. When God...
by Jeremy | Mar 14, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
Finally slipping back into consciousness, my uncooperative eyelids grudgingly yielded two slits through which my listlessly wandering eyeballs struggled to bring the ceiling into focus. My brain was playing catch-up, trying to remember where I was and why I was...
by Jeremy | Feb 27, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
The sheer amount of stuff two people can accumulate in a few years is just flabbergasting. I know this because my wife and I have been married for just under three years now, and it recently fell to me to fit all of our earthly possessions into a moving truck....
by Jeremy | Jan 30, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
“Brilliant military strategist” are three words that have never been used to describe me, primarily because they would be a great big whopping lie. In Risk, my goal is to seize the territories with the coolest sounding names—which is why I will always...
