by Jeremy | Jul 12, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
The world is so loud. All it takes is the push of a button for noise to come crashing in like an unrelenting waterfall. My car has a button that funnels popular music and obnoxious advertisements through my speakers. My remote control has a button than transforms my...
by Jeremy | Jul 5, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
The Fourth of July is a day when we, as Americans, collectively gather to reflect on the history of our great nation by launching thousands of explosives into the air. It’s also the day when we commemorate the founding fathers of our country signing into...
by Jeremy | Jun 21, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
A wise man once said, “Know thyself”—but a wiser man said, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). Ours is a culture that places a growing emphasis on doing what feels right, looking...
by Jeremy | Jun 14, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
I forget sometimes that Jesus had more than twelve disciples. I mean, yes, there were the twelve, the ones everyone remembers, the ones mentioned by name in the gospel accounts. But there were others—in Luke 10:1-12, for instance, we see Christ sending out seventy...
by Jeremy | Jun 8, 2013 | Sabbath Thoughts
It seems to me that as our society moves farther and farther from the idea of marriage as a sacred, God-ordained institution, the more the idea seeps into the Church that the vows between a husband and a wife can be discarded when times get tough or they become...
