||40days|| week two: acknowledge
"It wasn't me." "I didn't do it." "I don't know anything about it." Without a doubt, one of the greatest tendencies in our lives as people is denial. We read about this truth in the Bible when the prophet Jeremiah says: The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? …
God’s Challenging Call
What happens when God calls you into something difficult? That's the story of the prophet Jeremiah, who is called by many, 'the weeping prophet'. Jeremiah's Calling From his own words, we get the sense that Jeremiah heard God's call at a young age. He voices his anxieties to God right away: "Alas, Sovereign Lord...I do …
At the Crossroads
This is what the Lord says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'" (Jeremiah 6:16) A lot of us are standing at crossroads in …
Leading to a Fatal End?
The priests did not ask, 'Where is the Lord?' Those who dealt with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. - Jeremiah 2:8 These words from Jeremiah show a sad state of affairs for God's people. The spiritual leaders of the nation =did not concern themselves with God's presence. In fact, …
Matthew Erickson 