Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

This morning, I received an Easter card. Now, to be honest, I don’t receive all that many Easter cards. I guess I’m not as popular as you. But when I get them, as I do with Christmas cards, I do take a moment to read through them and appreciate the gesture. As I opened this […]

“Jesus, where are you?” It’s a familiar question which we almost always ask in the wake of tragedy, and it’s a question countless people across our nation and around our world are asking after last week’s horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. It’s a good question. In fact, it’s a better […]

Well, here we are. It’s been over two years since I started this word study about joy. I’ve learned a lot along the way about what joy is, what it’s not, what fuels it, what quenches it, and more. I’ve had my perspectives broadened to realize that it’s not just my joy that I should […]

I enjoy writing and teaching. I mean, there are obviously times when writing or teaching is a real killjoy. For instance, when I was in college and Dr. Weeter had us writing a term paper in each of four classes, all due the same day. And when I’m teaching a room full of brats that […]

Everything about the account of Micah in Judges 17-18 is wrong. Just plain wrong. The guy steals 1,100 pieces of silver from his own mother. Then, when he hears her cursing about it, afraid that he would fall victim to the thing, he returns it. She blesses him for undoing his wrong and then dedicates […]

In my last post on this whole joy study, I discussed 1 Peter 1. There, the apostle Peter was writing to believers in northern Asia Minor – believers who were filled with everyday disciples dealing with everyday problems and everyday persecution – and exhorting them to do the right thing no matter what. There, he […]

DISCLAIMER: The following are my thoughts, and mine alone. They are not to be construed in any way as an endorsement of one party or candidate. I am tired. I’m tired of the politics. I’m tired of the endless campaign. I’m tired of the mud slinging. I’m tired of the endless bickering and finger-pointing. I’m […]

The book of 1 Peter is a new favorite of mine. For years, I had virtually overlooked the thing in favor of the gospels, Acts, and the Pauline epistles. But two months ago, I started into a sermon series on 1 Peter, and as we’ve worked through it over the course of the last 10 […]

Hebrews 13:17 is one of those verses that I’m uncomfortable addressing. As a leader myself, I don’t like telling people that they need to shape up so I can have joy; it seems inappropriately self-serving. And as a person who has leaders over me, I don’t like hearing that I’m supposed to enable them to […]

Hebrews 12:2 is one of those passages that we in the holiness world love to talk about. I mean, together with its immediate predecessor, you have the phenomenal exhortation to “lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares [and] run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on […]