prophetic (35)

Ian

Instigation

Jeremiah 15:10–14; Matthew 10:16–23; Matthew 12:46–50 Christmas is coming! All I want for Christmas is for 2020 to be over. How about you? 2020 may be the year of division. There is no question that the country is divided. While 2016 was certainly divisive, it…

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Ian

Who Wears Your Crown?

Matthew 5:13–16; Mark 9:43–50; Hebrews 2:1–18 In a recent Church Leaders Podcast, the host (Jason Daye) said something that should deeply concern all of us. It’s not what was said was false or wrong. It’s that what was said was true. “…many people are quicker…

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Ian

A Little Prophesying

Deuteronomy 13:1–5; Deuteronomy 18:20–22; Jeremiah 28:1–9 Doomsday prophets are certainly a thing. There are a lot of them, and of varying kinds: epidemiologist (disease), environment, morality, political, sexuality, education, freedom, financial, and so on and on. Doom sells. Doomsayers may also be helpful to guide…

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Ian

Releasing Darkness

2 Kings 25:1–12; Ezekiel 33:21–33 (read online ⧉) The fall of God’s City. The first taking of people had happened 9 years prior to the verses in 2 Kings. Then almost 1-1/2 years of a siege. The so-called People of God were people in misery.

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Ian

Easy Listening

Jeremiah 26:20–24; Matthew 23:29–24:2 (read online ⧉) The most famous Uriah in the Bible is not the one we read about in Jeremiah. The famous Uriah died because the king slept with his wife. He was…inconvenient for the king. Perhaps being named Uriah isn’t a…

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