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Jeremiah ch.11 - Renewing the Covenant
In Chapter 11 Jeremiah calls the people to express alliegance with God's covenant. Many suggest that here he is expressing support in the religious r…
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Jeremiah ch.10 - Mocking Idolatry
This chapter intersperses depictions of God's greatness with statements belittling and making a parody of the idols that the nations serve, encouragi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jeremiah ch.9 - Lessons of the Wilderness
Jeremiah can no longer countenance the corruption and deception of Jerusalem. He expresses a desire to escape to the wilderness. In today's podcast w…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jeremiah ch.8 - Lessons of the Bird Migration
In this chapter, we speak of three themes:
1. Jeremiah imagines the destruction of king and country and depicts it all in graphic detail, as if he ca…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jeremiah ch.7 - False Religion
What happens when society is thoroughly corrupt, but worships God in a false sense that the Temple of the Lord will protect Jerusalem?
Here, Jeremiah…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jeremiah ch.6 - Impending Doom
Chapter 6 intersperses warnings of the impending doom, with rebuke about the dismal state of social justice in Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah ch.5 - Social Justice
Jeremiah critiques the people and warns of national calamity, due to the people's exploitation of the weak and vulnerable and for their failures in t…
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Jeremiah ch.4 - The Un-Creation
Our podcast addresses two aspects of this chapter:
1. The experience of the prophet, directly seeing and experiencing the events about which he is pr…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jeremiah ch.3 - Is Teshuva a Possibility?
God opens the chapter proclaiming that that Israel has betrayed her fidelity to God and therefore cannot return to God.
And yet, with a play of words…
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Jeremiah ch.2 - Broken Cisterns
"I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me, and followed me through the wilderness!"
Jeremiah reminds the people of their for…
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