April 7, 2022 | Jeremiah 12:1–13 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Just prior to today’s reading, enemies in Jeremiah’s hometown of Anathoth had plotted to kill him, but God had revealed their plot (Jer. 11:18–23). Without this revelation, the prophet would have been “like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter” (11:19). God promised to punish […]
April 6, 2022 | Jeremiah 10:1–16 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue In The Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow dreams of getting a brain. On the road, he sings, “I would not be just a nothin’ / My head all full of stuffin’…If I only had a brain.” Dorothy agrees, “With the thoughts you’ll be thinkin’/ You […]
April 5, 2022 | Jeremiah 7:1–11 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue When Jesus cleansed the Temple, he angrily drove out the moneychangers and overturned the tables of those exploiting the poor by selling doves for offerings. “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers’” (Matt. 21:13). […]
April 4, 2022 | Jeremiah 5:20–31 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Digging into our sin is like peeling an onion. We’re never done—there always seems to be another layer. And the more layers are revealed, the more we recognize the depths of our sinfulness and our inability to help ourselves. As Jeremiah said later in the […]
April 3, 2022 | Jeremiah 2:1–13 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Although 70 percent of Americans claim to be Christians, many do not attend any church. Denominational numbers are declining, as are church donations. Every year, about 6,000 to 10,000 local churches close their doors permanently. They have forsaken me, the spring of living water. JEREMIAH […]
April 2, 2022 | Jeremiah 1:4–19 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue How were Old Testament prophets appointed? When Isaiah was called, he “saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne.” Angels called to one another, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory” (Isa. 6:1–3). Similarly, when […]
April 1, 2022 | Jeremiah 1:1–3 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Jeremiah has been called “the weeping prophet.” Why? Because he brought mostly bad news. It grieved him even more that God’s people did not respond with repentance. They continued to sin, and judgment inevitably arrived. No wonder he wept! What was said through the prophet […]
March 31, 2022 | Proverbs 31:10–31 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue What a wide variety of women we have studied this month! These Old Testament women have made courageous decisions by faith, stepped up to lead, struggled with bitterness, loved with kindness, worshiped idols, spoke with wisdom, and prophesied truth. Each had different goals, obstacles, victories, […]
I woke up at 10am, had my bath and prepared breakfast ( Lemon tea + Tuna and bread + spaghetti with vegetables and meat). After taking breakfast, I helped mum in the garden (swept all the fallen leaves and with the help of a wheelbarrow, I transported them to the dumping site). Around 3:00pm, […]
March 6, 2022 | Judges 4:11-24 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue The battle between the Israelites and the Canaanites happened exactly as Deborah prophesied it would. Barak and Deborah moved in with their army of 10,000. Their opponent Sisera gathered his 900 iron chariots and all of his men to fend them off. The LORD himself […]