In The Word Read: Matthew 20:29-21:22 Sight for Those Who Are Blind 29 As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him. 30 And two people who were blind, sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”31 But the crowd sternly warned […]
Month: March 2021
What’s In It For Me?
In The Word Read: Matthew 19:23-20:28 23 And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than […]
Seriousness of Marriage Vows
In The Word Read: Matthew 19:1-22 Concerning Divorce 19 When Jesus had finished these words, He left Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan; 2 and large crowds followed Him, and He healed them there. 3 Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man […]
Ripe or Rotten?
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 24-25 Baskets of Figs and the Returnees 24 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and metalworkers from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me: behold, […]
The Potter’s Hands
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 17:19-18:23 The Sabbath Must Be Kept 19 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and stand at the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as at all the gates of Jerusalem; 20 and say to them, ‘Listen to […]
Be Good for Something
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 13 The Ruined Undergarment 13 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen undergarment and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water.” 2 So I bought the undergarment in accordance with the word of the Lord, and put it around my waist. 3 Then the word of […]
Worshipping False Gods
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 9:23-10:25 23 This is what the Lord says: “Let no wise man boast of his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast of his might, nor a rich man boast of his riches; 24 but let the one who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises mercy, justice, and righteousness […]
Wiser than the Animals
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 8:4-9:22 4 “You shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “Do people fall and not get up? Does one turn away and not repent? 5 Why has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold on to deceit, They refuse to return. 6 I have listened and heard, They have spoken what is not […]
Faith Misplaced
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 2:1-3:5 Judah’s Apostasy 2 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘This is what the Lord says: “I remember regarding you the devotion of your youth, Your love when you were a bride, Your following after Me in the wilderness, Through a land not […]
Abandon My Way for His Way
In The Word Read: Jeremiah 1 Jeremiah’s Call and Commission 1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the […]