by Jeremy | Sep 11, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
Mr. Blackwell’s fifth-grade social studies class. That’s the question everyone asks, isn’t it? “Where were you when it happened?” That’s where I was. Eleven years old with no idea that we even had a World Trade Center, much less...
by Jeremy | Sep 4, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
In English, a double negative flips a sentence on its head. To say that something was “not without its challenges” is just a confusing way of saying, “there were some challenges.” If an effort “didn’t go unnoticed,” it just...
by Jeremy | Aug 28, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
Zero. The answer is zero. You can handle sin about as effectively as you can handle bullets in your vital organs—that is to say, not at all. Sin destroys. Sin requires a life. Sin devours potential and crushes hope and separates you from God, which means there is no...
by Jeremy | Aug 21, 2015 | Sabbath Thoughts
So are “hard” and “complicated.” He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) Simple. Not easy. Hard. Not complicated. We can talk...
by Jeremy | Aug 14, 2015 | Holy Day
One of my favorite things about foreign languages are the words that don’t translate well. A crêpe, for instance, is not what most Americans call a pancake. It’s similar, for sure, but not the same. If a flapjack house gave you a plate full of crêpes,...
