April 22, 2022 | Jeremiah 39:1–14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue 536 A.D. might have been the worst year in world history. A volcanic eruption in Iceland spread ash across the northern hemisphere, leading to a dark fog that covered Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia for eighteen months. Temperatures fell so much that […]
April 21, 2022 | Jeremiah 37:11–21 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue “I am not a theologian or a scholar,” Elisabeth Elliot once said, “but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has […]
April 19, 2022 | Jeremiah 34:8–17 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue African Americans who want to learn more about their ancestry have, as of 2016, a new database they can consult. The Freedman’s Bureau Project digitized post-Civil War historical records in order to create a searchable database of nearly 1.8 million emancipated slaves. But now you […]
April 18, 2022 | Jeremiah 32:6–25 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When we “closed” on the sale of our house, it was a tedious affair. My wife and I, as well as our realtor, the seller, and a title expert, sat at a conference table stacked with papers. We signed and signed and signed, until my […]
April 17, 2022 | Jeremiah 31:1–14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Does God always give us what we deserve? Thankfully, no! Jeremiah chapters 30 to 33 are often called “the Book of Consolation.” Pastor and author Dane Ortlund explains this is “because God reveals to his people in these chapters his final response to their sinfulness, […]
April 16, 2022 | Jeremiah 29:1–14 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue I served for two years as a Christian English teacher in China. In those days before email and Skype, handwritten letters meant a lot. Each letter took about three weeks one way, so even if the recipient wrote back immediately it was a six-week turnaround. […]
April 15, 2022 | Jeremiah 26:1–16 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Most people place a high value on success. We judge ourselves and others by the things we have achieved, the house we live in, or the clothes we wear. If we’ve done well, we feel our lives should reflect our success. But the fact is […]
April 14, 2022 | Jeremiah 23:1–8 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In 2013, Pakistan set a world record by planting 847,275 trees in a single day. In 2016, India broke that record by planting an astounding 49.3 million trees in one day. In 2019, Ethiopia shattered the record by planting 350 million trees across the […]
April 13, 2022 | Jeremiah 21:1–10 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In the early church, believers shared whatever they had to meet one another’s needs. Barnabas sold some property and gave the money to the apostles to distribute. Noticing the praise he received, Ananias and his wife Sapphira decided to do the same…almost. They gave part […]