Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

Once again, it has been a long time since I wrote. The busy-ness of summer compelled me to take a hiatus from writing, and so I worked on another reading plan in my personal devotions. But now that fall has come and the kids are back in school, I want to finish this word study […]

It’s been a couple of weeks since I really worked on my word study of joy. There have been a number of reasons for this, but the primary cause was a detour through Revelation 2-3 as I spent a couple weeks in prayer and fasting over spiritual strongholds which need to be removed from my […]

When I was in Bible college, I took a course on Biblical Greek. It was not required. I could have graduated without it (although, for the record, I would have then received a B.S. in Pastoral Ministry, which just didn’t seem like a great idea). And to be honest, I seriously contemplated not taking it […]

When I started this quest to locate and destroy strongholds in my life and the church, I thought it would be a quick thing. Now, more than two weeks later, I have identified the strongholds and started to attack them, but I have also begun to realize the enormity of the task. As I reach […]

Of the seven churches to which Jesus wrote in Revelation 2-3, the congregation at Philadelphia is probably the only one that didn’t get what I would call a scolding. All the others were rebuked for at least one thing that they were doing. Okay, so maybe not Smyrna, which was dealing with persecution. All the […]

I didn’t have a chance to write yesterday, but I did spend time fasting and praying about strongholds. In particular, I prayed through Jesus’ letter to the church at Sardis in Revelation 3:1-6. In the late first century AD, Sardis was a bustling, prominent city on the site of present-day Sart (formerly Sartmahmut), Turkey. It […]

The third letter that Jesus dictated to John in Revelation 2:12-17 was addressed to the church at Pergamum. At one time, Pergamum was a powerful city, controlling an empire that spanned much of modern-day Turkey. As such, it was also a natural epicenter for culture and cults, and several of the major structures identified in […]

Last week, I started a period of fasting and prayer to seek God on a couple of matters. The biggest of these is a frustratingly predictable cycle in our church: we can run up to 45 or 50 people and then shrink back to 30 or 35. In short, I want to break this cycle. […]

I just know that this whole thing is not over. No, I think it’s just beginning, and we must choose to follow even now. We must choose to live as Jesus taught us to live. We must choose to tell others so that they, too, will follow and live. We must choose.

To that end, Nicodemus, I have reached a conclusion. I can no longer remain a secret follower of Jesus. Though I do not know what will happen of his teachings, or how posterity will ultimately recall his wonders, I do know that I cannot sit idly by while others figure that out. And I would submit, my friend, that neither can you.