Have you noticed that we live in a rather unstable world? I will key you in right now. This is an old offering sermonette that I did in the spring of 2000. I was in a hurry to get everything done before the Feast, and I thought, well, …
Everyone loves and remembers the parables of Jesus. The scenes He paints are so vivid and lifelike that they are deeply embedded in the Bible-reading public's common store of reference. If someone mentions the Good Samaritan, the Pearl …
Several years ago, bumper stickers and other merchandise proudly bearing the motto, "God is my co-pilot," became popular. A short time later, astute individuals began promoting a fitting response to this pithy saying: "If God is your …

(10) Woe is me, my mother,
That you have borne me,
A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have neither lent for interest,
Nor have men lent to me for interest.
Every one of them curses me. (11) The LORD said:
“ Surely it will be well with your remnant;
Surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with you
In the time of adversity and in the time of affliction.
The intensity of rhetoric in the preceding verses, the horrific images it evokes, brings Jeremiah to experience profound depression, as verse 10 indicates. Jeremiah is not even a banker, yet people all around him condemn him! Consider …
Many dangers begin small or unnoticed. A tiny ember in dry grass. A hairline crack in a foundation. A root beneath the soil. But what starts unseen eventually surfaces. Scripture calls one such danger a “root of bitterness” — a spiritual fault that begins unseen but eventually affects everything it touches (Hebrews 12:15). Roots grow covertly, beneath the surface, long before anyone becomes aware of their existence. Structurally, these roots form the foundation of the body they support. Bitterness is no different. Jealousy and envy are often its seeds. Left unchecked, they fester into …
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