Jeremiah Made Me Think

In my quest to finish reading the entire Bible, I was doing my usual Chapter-a-Day morning time with God when I came across this verse in Jeremiah 10:

“For thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time; And will cause them distress, that they may be found.” (v.18)

I had to read it repeatedly. Doing Old Testament books had always been challenging for me since they usually feature a nation running away and God sending warnings about His wrath through His prophets. Something about God’s righteous wrath makes my soul uneasy. I mean, it took me 3 months to finish Deuteronomy and I had to stop and switch to Philippians halfway for a reprieve. But that’s another discussion altogether.

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Back to Basics

Last week I attended a church in Queens, New York since my mom’s friend goes there. We stayed at her place during our 4-day NYC visit. I was actually looking forward to going to Redeemer Church after reading “The Reason for God” by Timothy Keller. I think that plan didn’t push through because God wanted to show me something through this church.

The church doesn’t have a set, no flashing lights, projected gobos or moving heads. There was no video or ProPresenter for that matter. The slides were from Powerpoint.. 97. Using a gradient background *gasp* Their bulletin is printed in white bond paper, folded (manually) in three parts, most likely put together in MS Word. Attached with it is the church event calendar. Literally, a calendar designed with ClipArt images and 5 different fonts! There wasn’t a full band. Worship music is in the hymn book. Yup.. no Chris Tomlin here. But my gosh, the whole congregation was praising Him. And then I started hearing the still small Voice I’ve come to know.

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