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Will You “B” What You Should? In these 5 Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday, which is the Season of Lent on the church calendar, I am going to continue to teach about some of the ways we can honor the Lord Jesus with our connection and commitment to him. Last week, I talked about the “N Word”—…

The N Word: Not What You Think In our American culture, when we think of “the N word”, we usually think about the derogatory slang that is used against African-American people. And the use of that word is wrong and demeaning from whites to blacks especially. But I am going to address a completely different…

The Image of Unquenchable Love “Valentine’s Day is for Amateurs” Valentine’s day is my day off. —Don Wallace Solomon’s Love Story The Song of Solomon is a book of deeply erotic and romantic poetry that is a long conversation between a man, the Prince Solomon, and a woman. They are totally infatuated…

When God Calls: Isaiah The story of the Prophet Isaiah begins about 115 years before the prophetic ministry of Jeremiah, whom we looked at last week. Jeremiah was still prophet when the last territory of the children of Abraham, Judah, fell to Nebuchadnezzar, and the leaders of the nation were taken…

When God Calls: Jeremiah Today I am talking about another of my favorite prophets, Jeremiah son of Hilkiah. He’s one of my favorites because he is very human, very committed, and sometimes argues with God about his mission. Jeremiah served God for a long time, through the reigns of 3 of Judah’s kings,…