At the Last Supper, Jesus said that He would shed the blood of the covenant for His disciples (Mark 14:24). So, what is this covenant He was talking about? At least in part, He was referring to Jeremiah 31, which describes the new covenant that God promised to make with…

Don’t we like to listen to preachers with whom we already agree? Many preachers today teach the “Word of Faith,” saying that any Christian who truly trusts in Christ can name any blessing he or she wishes, and God will grant that request. Who wouldn’t want to believe that God…

Bible Reading for August 12 – Jeremiah 23-25 How should we pray? These days, the answer seems obvious. “Lord, please take away COVID-19. Lord, please calm the riots in our streets. Lord, please let businesses reopen.” And all of these prayers are, in one way or another, really saying the…

Bible Reading for August 11 – Jeremiah 18-22 “Have Thine own way, Lord! Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.” That’s what we sing, and that’s what Jeremiah urges us to recognize in chapter 18 of his prophecy. But what exactly does that mean for us? In the first…

So, why do we need to read the Old Testament prophets anyway? Sure, God’s people may have made sacrifices to all sorts of false fertility gods back then (Jeremiah 17:2), but we don’t practice that sort of primitive religion anymore. And sure, Jeremiah needed to denounce those who cheated and…

Bible Reading for August 8 – Jeremiah 7-9 If there’s anything we Mississippians were good at, at least until the COVID crisis hit, it was going to church. We have over 60 congregations just in Claiborne County alone, and year in and year out, our state is near the top…

Foolish, stupid children with no understanding (Jeremiah 4:22). That doesn’t just describe the violent rioters in Portland, does it? For over the last 50 years, all of us Americans have imagined that we can slaughter 60 million of our children and still have our economy grow at a healthy rate….

Is God calling you to speak for Him? If you know anyone who needs to know Christ or to know Him better, the answer is “Yes!” After all, Jesus told His disciples to carry the gospel to all the nations, so there’s no one who doesn’t need to hear about…

“The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing” (Zephaniah 3:17). This has to be the best known verse in the Book of…

So, what if America is too far gone to be redeemed? That’s really what the protesters in our biggest cities are saying – that racism is woven too deeply into the fabric of our national culture to be removed, and that it’s too big a problem to be ignored. And…