Jeremiah
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The Question
Jeremiah 16:10 “When you tell these people all this and they ask you, “Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God?” One of my daughters had a friend over to spend the night when she was younger. She was
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Return and Restore
Jeremiah 15:19 “Therefore, thus says the Lord, “If you return, then I will restore you—“ I can remember getting into trouble as a young boy. Mom or Dad were right there to correct me. Some of those times I got into trouble, I had to return to the place of the crime and ask for
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Kohl’s Cash and False Truths
Jeremiah 14:13-15 13 Then I said, “O Lord God, the ones who speak in Your name are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword and you will not go hungry. But I will give you lasting peace in this place.’” 14 Then the Lord said to me, “Those men are speaking lies in My name. I have
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The Wrong Mindset
Jeremiah 13:23 “Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.” Chuck brought Jeff Simmons out to help him work on his 1932 Ford Coupe one afternoon. Jeff was a smart young man and a great friend to Chuck. They started working,
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Always On Their Lips
Jeremiah 12:2 “…You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.” In grade school, we all had to do a science project. When the teacher told us about it, some of us were excited, but most were filled with gloom because of the amount of work it would take. We had plenty of
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Directed Steps
Jeremiah 10:23 “Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps.” The high school my daughters attended was really good at band. None of my daughters played in the band, but it was clear that the football team wasn’t the only group excelling. Cedar Park
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Boasting in the Lord
Jeremiah 9:23-24 “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,”
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Closed Ears
Jeremiah 6:10, 15 “To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.” “Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do
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Backwards
Jeremiah 7:23-24 “But this is what I commanded them, saying, “Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I commanded you, that it may be well with you.” “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked
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Ruled By Your Own Authority
Jeremiah 5:31 “The prophets prophesy lies, the priest rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end.” I remember back in grade school when I witnessed a kid who acted as if he wasn’t under any authority at all. He would disrupt class, make
Let It Go 