The Shepherd Who Gets It Right
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.