The Wrong Way

Jeremiah 7:24 “But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.” Politically if someone is called “progressive,” that is usually just code...

Trust and Obey

Jeremiah 1:7 “But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.” I just recently preached at a church where many of the people have jobs that are hard to...

Are You Too Poor?

Isaiah 66:2 “For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.” You can be too rich for God, but you can never...

He Was Afflicted

Isaiah 63:9 “In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days.” Not long ago, I overheard two brothers talking at a dinner...

A New Name

Isaiah 62:2 “And the Gentiles shall see they righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.” At some level and to some extent, everyone is interested in making a name. Don’t...