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ASSEMBLY TIMES:
June 2025
Weekly Devotional
“… Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it’” Jeremiah 6:16. When he was little, my son didn’t want to take a children’s cold medicine, so we called it ‘chirpy juice’ (not sure how that came about) and would pretend that it made him invisible for about thirty seconds. He would run, jump, and wave his hands in front of us while we pretended to look for him. How I wish that the cure for mankind’s ills would be that easy to market today! In a society that is steeped in sin and struggles to find answers in all the wrong places, we who have obeyed the gospel and are living it faithfully hold out the “word of life” (Philippians 2:16) … but who asks for the ancient paths? Not many in Jeremiah’s day on the eve of the Babylonian captivity, although God would preserve a remnant 70 years later. There’s new Barna research, however, that gives hope as there’s a resurgence of interest in Jesus among Millennials and Gen-Zs just since the pandemic. This means that younger adults are tired of pizza parties and relying on feelings and experiences but rather are hungering for the truth.
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“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God,” Psalm 90:2. God is eternal, yet man is finite, a mist or vapor, as James says, that vanishes quickly. Like most, even though I was a preacher who spoke of mortality and the need to prepare for eternity, I really was not confronted with a close death, outside of grandparents and a younger cousin passing, until my first wife passed at age 49 in late 2020. With half of me in the oneness I had shared in marriage (Genesis 2:24) ripped away, I awoke to my own mortality and that most of my life was now spent. “The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away,” verse 10 states. With so little time left to us (and we know not how little), the psalmist concludes in verse 12, “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” We must make the most of every opportunity in every moment that God gives us here on earth to make a difference for His kingdom and Name. We can rest when we’re dead. What are you, in your wisdom, doing for God?
Weekly Devotional
“Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. …” Jeremiah 6:15. As a kid, I remember not wanting to try on clothes in the store’s changing room as shoppers were milling around the cubicle. Today, I’m embarrassed to take off my belt and shoes in an airport security line. My late wife, whose parents were born in 1938, told me that she could not say the word ‘pregnant’ aloud when she was growing up. In many ways, though, our culture has so shifted in recent decades that nothing is taboo anymore. There’s nothing that we would hesitate to talk about because we’re “in polite company.” I see this on TV as underwear commercials and innuendo are not so subtle. This is a reflection of the culture that has loosened its grasp on biblical morality as a whole and thinks nothing of divorce, kids born out of wedlock, and relationships that are celebrated rather than condemned. So rampant was the attitude towards sin in the time of Jeremiah that shame was a thing of the past and “they did not know how to blush.” To restore a right attitude of biblical morality, we must first restore God’s sovereignty and standard.
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“… I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David, my servant: ‘I will estab-lish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations’” Psalm 89:3-4. Written at a later time when Jerusalem was destroyed, and King Zedekiah and God’s people were taken off into captivity, the psalmist questions the covenant made with David in 2 Samuel 7 that God would keep a descendant of David upon His throne forever. From an earthly perspective, it would certainly seem like God was giving up on the uncondition-al covenant that He had made with David, whose line was preserved through so many spiritual and physical troubles and near-extinctions over the past centuries. But we, of course, with the benefit of hindsight, know that out of the seemingly hopelessness of this situation that God would provide through the root of Jesse—Jesus, a descendant of David, who is seated at the right hand of His Father upon a throne that is not made with human hands. And, if God is faithful in such a horrible and impossible situation as this to fulfill His covenant, will He not also be faithful in whatever you are going through as a beloved child of His or the church is going through?
Summer Series 2025 - "Calm In The Storm"
This summer’s theme will be – "Calm in the Storm" - looking with our earthly eyes, we often plow ahead to take care of life’s problems with our own power, but … throughout
Scripture God has His people pause to trust in Him and shows His power over our tempests.
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