(Jeremiah 5-6; 1 Timothy 1) The Lord caused Jeremiah to bring a hard Word to His people. Some years before, God allowed Assyria to overrun and destroy Israel, the Northern Kingdom of this divided land. Despite that example of what happens when a nation rejects God, the Southern Kingdom of Judah followed in her […]

  John 1:19-34, Luke 3:15, Malachi 4:5, Isaiah 40:1-3, Deuteronomy 18:15-18, Isaiah 53:4-7, 1 Corinthians 15:3,1 Peter 2:24,1 John 2:2 Summary: John the Baptist is presented in the prologue of John’s gospel as the prophesied forerunner to the arrival of God’s Messiah. He prepared the people of Israel for the Messiah by preaching repentance and […]