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Jeremiah 31:7-14

2nd Sunday after Christmas C

You can’t accuse the Old Testament prophets of not being specific enough when it came to describing the blessings of God’s salvation! Sometimes believers today content themselves with generic or generalized descriptions of felicity in “heaven,” sometimes not advancing in their views of the New Creation much beyond the wispy, cloudy, ethereal realm that New…

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Jeremiah 33:14-16

Advent 1C

Acoustics are so key.  How does a text sound?  Usually you need to pay attention to the context to figure that out.  But when you dive into the middle of a text like this lection, you can so easily miss or forget that wider context.  But remembering it can change the acoustics pretty significantly.  After…

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Jeremiah 31:31-34

Lent 5B

Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider Everybody likes what follows the words “The days are coming” in verse 31 of this passage.  A bit more dodgy and difficult to understand, however, is what follows that identical phrase in verse 27.  Because there the last thing mentioned is that if ever it had been true that…

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Investing in a Field of Flesh

Ascension Day

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Run With the Horses

from 2001

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Jeremiah 37:7-14

Christmas 2B

You can’t accuse the Old Testament prophets of not being specific enough when it came to describing the blessings of God’s salvation! Sometimes believers today content themselves with generic or generalized descriptions of felicity in “heaven,” sometimes not advancing in their views of the New Creation much beyond the wispy, cloudy, ethereal realm that New…

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Jeremiah 31:7-14

Christmas 2A

Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider You can’t accuse the Old Testament prophets of not being specific enough when it came to describing the blessings of God’s salvation!  Sometimes believers today content themselves with generic or generalized descriptions of felicity in “heaven,” sometimes not advancing in their views of the New Creation much beyond the…

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