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Today on the Almanac, we go to the mailbag to answer a question about contemporary and ancient problems in the church.

גיא הנם - Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you." JEREMIAH 19:1–2

Today on the Almanac, we talk about Leibniz and Theodicy.

עקב - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? JEREMIAH 17:9

Pastor Sheek Teaches On Mark 4:35-41

Sanctification and quiet lives.

Today on the Almanac, we tell the story behind the author of “The Hound of Heaven.”

דיג - “Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks." JEREMIAH 16:16

We are discussing "I can do all things through Christ" in context of the rest of the passage, and then we discuss the story of Abraham sacrificing Isaac (rather... not sacrificing him) and whether or not Christians are called to sacrifice. Is that what this passage is talking about?

In the constant search for new and novel experiences, are we forsaking the simple word of God? Beware of the leaven of novelty.

Today on the Almanac, we look at Epperson v. Arkansas and controversies surrounding teaching evolution in public schools.

מערה - "Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?" JEREMIAH 7:9–11