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Oct. 27 – Thoughts on Jer. 12-14 & 2 Tim. 1

You are always righteous, when I bring a case before you.  Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from […]

Oct. 26 – Thoughts on Jer. 9-11 & 1 Tim. 6

From “Big Girls Don’t Cry” to “There’s no crying in baseball!”, crying has been a sign of weakness for generations.  Bullies have sought to make younger kids cry forever, and “taking it like a man” has meant with an utter lack of tears.  Funerals often got a pass and became one of the only places […]

Oct. 25 – Thoughts on Jer. 6-8 & 1 Tim. 5

Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father.  Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity…  Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Our family is […]

Oct. 24 – Thoughts on Jer. 3-5 & 1 Tim. 4

‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord. My wife Heather and I met in Russia.  Well, not really but it makes a much better beginning to a story than the reality.  We were in the North Park Choir together for years, but being a choir of nearly 100 […]