Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Eventually, Ezekiel was taken into exile by the Babylonians. But these chapters precede that time and the fall of Jerusalem. That is,...

The Lord sends Ezekiel to a people unwilling to listen and whose heads and hearts are hard as hard stone (3:7). But as hard as the...

“The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted,...

Egypt, the Philistines, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus (Syria), Kedar and Hazor, Elam, and Babylon . . . as with other prophets, Jeremiah...

Jerusalem had fallen to Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians. Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, released Jeremiah from his chains and...

“Zedekiah . . . reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim. But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to...

Jeremiah sent Baruch into the temple to preach (Jeremiah had been banned from the temple), and the Lord said to him, “It may be that the...

The story of Jeremiah and the Rechabites is an interesting one. Offered wine to drink, the Rechabites refused because of their vow not to...

Nebuchadnezzar was invading, Jeremiah was telling the king not to resist, and King Zedekiah had Jeremiah shut up in prison. Jeremiah's...

At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the last king in Jerusalem, a prophet from Gibeon, Hananiah, told that the yoke of...

Reading through Jeremiah and remembering all the opposition that the prophet faced reminds us that still, today, all over the world,...

Wow, Jeremiah was blunt in his conversations with God! Pashur, the priest, had beaten Jeremiah and put him in stocks. Jeremiah cried...

I don’t believe this has ever happened. Today’s Scripture text is the same as that for my sermon, this morning: the potter and the...

I always find myself amazed at the perseverance of God. Chapter after chapter, the bad news keeps coming. God has turned against his...

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in...