1. The youths that mock Elisha are representative of Israel’s collective contempt and disregard for all things relating to their One True God.
  2. Forgiveness of sins does not come in bits and pieces. There are no levels of forgiveness.
  3. One could reason that God might, at least, give the church a little worldly power.
  4. Forty-five seconds is about how long I have as a pastor leading a Sunday morning service to sit at the feet of the cross and receive Jesus’ body and blood given to me by the hands of another at the Lord’s Table.
  5. Bo Giertz attained infamy in Sweden for a humble adherence to unpopular, orthodox practice and doctrine.
  6. God and Jeremiah may have been looking at the same person, but they were seeing very different things.
  7. It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.
  8. Ascertaining the what and how of the Church greatly factor into the very purpose of the Church, that is, they essentially answer the question why the Church?
  9. Questions of our purpose and significance as a church abound with fewer and fewer people in the pews.
  10. This is an edited excerpt from “The Pastoral Prophet: Meditations on the Book of Jeremiah” written by Steve Kruschel (1517 Publishing, 2019).
  11. This article comes to us from 1517 guest contributor, Karen Stenberg.
  12. Repentance means to turn or change your mind. It is not a turn from sin to righteousness. It is a turn from sin to the righteous Son of God who has defeated all sin.