April 25, 2022 | Jeremiah 44:7–23 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Are you wise or foolish? The book of Proverbs has a lot to say about foolish and sinful choices: “The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty” (Prov. 22:3). And these actions have consequences: “The waywardness of […]
April 24, 2022 | Jeremiah 43:1–7 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Basketball player Kyrie Irving made a stir before the 2017 NBA All-Star Game by revealing that he believed in a flat earth. Flat-earthers, as they are called, are convinced that the earth is flat instead of round. Kyrie, along with a number of others, see […]
April 23, 2022 | Jeremiah 40:1–6 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue The fall of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. was a tragic turning point in Israel’s history. It was also the climax of Jeremiah’s prophetic ministry. God’s judgment had come to pass. He’d obeyed God and spoken truth, but the fulfillment of his messages grieved him deeply. […]
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 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 […]