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Jeremiah, Who Were You?
If you think, “Uggh, the weeping prophet. How depressing,” think again. Jeremiah is fascinating. He’s so much more than a man who needs a box of Kleenex. This blog post is part of a series on the inspiration for my inspirational fantasy series, The Prophet Chronicles. We’ve talked about Josiah – how he was crowned at age eight. EIGHT! His dad was a rotten guy. He probably made disastrous choices when it came to marriage. He started following the Lord around age fifteen. Why? He became a godly king. Who or what influenced him. Who would he have listened to? Jeremiah! What do we know about Jeremiah? The words of Jeremiah…
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New Every Morning
In the last blog post, I said I write to encourage those who are asking where God is in the midst of tragedy. As much as I love apologetics, academic arguments can seem irrelevant to this postmodern generation. Thomas Umstattd’s latest episode of the Christian Publishing Show addresses this very thing. Postmodernism is very cynical. It rejects objective truth. Postmoderns don’t care if Christianity is true in a scientific sense. They don’t care if it could win in a court of law. Nor do they care if Christianity could win a debate because they have their own truth. They believe that happiness comes from standing in your own truth. So how…
