In 606 BC, King Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, was ruling. Jehoahaz was not like his father, who had been the last great revivalist the kingdom of Judah would see. Josiah had sought the LORD while king in his teens, then in his 20’s the priests presented him with the book of the Law of God, it was a...

One of the things God did in the time of Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, living around 606 BC, was to remove His blessing of peace from Judah. This set the pace for a cultural decline into turmoil. This is something we must learn: the peace of God does not come because we are good people. God favour...

What does it mean when we say we are ‘being destroyed’? Is our economy wrecked? Is our community at odds with one another? Is our house struggling to make ends meet? Is the population declining? What does it really mean to ‘be destroyed’? The answer to that question comes in Jeremiah 13, in which...

God’s love is amazing. We seem to be programmed, as people made in His image, to have innate love for those closest to us: Our mother and father, our spouse, our children. Yet even these strong bonds of love fall short of God’s love. While the sinful world may try to destroy and change the defini...

It is really interesting to take a step back from the inflated language of the media and social media and try to look clearly at the modern nation of Israel and her history. There is so much history! One thing is certain though, we must be careful to take our cues from Scripture. Let’s remember t...

Today in our reading, we hear about the false gods of Babylon. Based on worldly success alone, the Babylonian gods would have seemed very powerful. Isaiah doesn’t buy it though. He prophesies that the so-called gods will ultimately be conquered and go into captivity just like the many nations Bab...

The longer I live, the more I am finding out that Jesus Christ is the answer to all our problems. All other answers fail. Sin is a deep, dark hole that none of us can escape from. It affects us and infects us. Isaiah 50 tells of the ways that Jesus Christ has worked to free us from the ravages of...

We all have an internal longing for fairness and justice, it is a built-in feature from our Heavenly Father. The distressing thing is that actual justice seems to be out of our reach, and too often life is far from fair. How do we handle this, as Christians? We take our cues from the Scriptures.
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The Hebrew term for watchmen is šāmar. It literally means to keep, to guard, to observe and give heed, and it is used many times in the book of Ezekiel. To be a watchman was a very important position as they were the ones who kept an eye out to alert the people of the city about news or danger. G...

There are consequences for the decisions we make. Most of us acknowledge this truth, even though we tend to not want the outcome of those choices. We will often not think about the consequences of our actions so that we can justify doing them in the first place! Our reading
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The name Jeremiah is pronounced in Hebrew as YIR-MEY-AHU. It is a word that means God founds, exalts, loosens or throws. Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet because much of his writing is music in the form of lamenting. Jeremiah was only a boy about thirteen years of age when he was called i...

Jeremiah began his ministry in the time of King Josiah—a king who conducted one of the greatest revivals of God’s law in history. But it did not last long. The people did not faithfully grab and hold onto the reality of God’s provision. The Law was still simply a set of laws, not God’s perfect wo...