Tag: Faithfulness
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Twenty-three years, then hard hearts
I’ve been reading through Jeremiah lately and in chapter 25, something Jeremiah said to the people of Judah convicted me. Here’s what he wrote: For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have […]
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One Reason We Sing
I think a huge reason for my spiritual ups and downs is the fact that I tend to look at my subjective feelings more often than I look at God’s proven faithfulness and goodness. As I spent time reading the Bible earlier in Psalm 13, my heart rejoiced with David’s words: I will sing to […]
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Does God Really Only Call Us to Be Faithful, Not Fruitful?
Quite often lately, I have heard the phrase, “God calls us to be faithful, not fruitful.” Working as a campus minister in the Midwest, we can pull that statement out to make us feel good about ourselves when moralistic college students don’t respond to the gospel. There are two ways to interpret this sentence. One […]