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Sermons on Jeremiah

9 sermons in the archive.

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The Shepherd Who Gets It Right

Hans-Erik Nelson · Jeremiah 23:1–6 · November 23, 2025

You'll hear why Israel's kings kept failing their people, and how that long history of bad leadership points to a promise that still holds: you are safe under a king who actually does the job.

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Words Without Integrity

Hans-Erik Nelson · Jeremiah 7:1-15 · September 14, 2025

You'll hear why God, through Jeremiah, is angrier at religious self-deception than at outright wrongdoing, and what it looks like to stop using holy language as cover for a life that contradicts it.

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Words Without Weight

Hans-Erik Nelson · Jeremiah 7:1–11 · November 10, 2024

You'll hear why saying the right religious words while living a contradictory life doesn't fool anyone, least of all God, and how Jesus changes the stakes of that ancient warning.

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Qualified by God, Not Yourself

Victoria Gilmore · Jeremiah 1:4-10 · August 21, 2022

You'll hear why genuine prophetic courage has less to do with confidence in yourself and everything to do with trusting that God equips the people he calls, and what that means for the moments when you feel too small, too unqualified, or too afraid to speak up.

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When Covenant Stops Meaning Anything

Victoria Gilmore · Jeremiah 11:1-17 · August 8, 2021

You'll hear why Israel's collapse wasn't a sudden fall but a slow forgetting, and what it looks like when religious practice becomes hollow while the relationship behind it quietly disappears.

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Bloom Where God Plants You

Victoria Gilmore · Jeremiah 29:1-14 · July 18, 2021

You'll hear why Jeremiah 29:11 means something harder and richer than it's usually made to mean, and what it looks like to trust God's goodness when he has led you into the very situation you'd most want to escape.

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Grace Stronger Than Memory

Hans-Erik Nelson · Jeremiah 31:31-34 · July 11, 2021

You'll hear how God's promise of a new covenant shifts the burden of faithfulness from your shoulders to his, and what it means that God chooses not to hold your past against you.

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Called Before You Were Ready

Hans-Erik Nelson · Jeremiah 2:1-13 · June 20, 2021

You'll hear how God chose Jeremiah for an unpopular and dangerous mission before he was born, and what that pattern of reluctant calling means for the moments when you feel unqualified to speak the truth.

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Slogans Won't Save You

Hans-Erik Nelson · Jeremiah 7:1-20 · June 6, 2021

You'll hear why repeating the right religious words while ignoring injustice outside the church is a form of self-deception, and what Jeremiah's temple sermon reveals about the gap between what we say and how we actually live.