Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

I have long known that the book of Proverbs is filled with wonderful, wise sayings. I mean, isn’t that what you would expect from a book titled “Proverbs”? But this afternoon, as I sit in the car waiting for my daughter to emerge from her school, I ran across an interesting verse in Proverbs 11. […]

It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted anything about my word study on “joy,” but today, as I finally moved out of the book of Psalms and into Proverbs, I ran headlong into one of my favorite – and most challenging – passages in all of Scripture: Proverbs 5:15-23. It is a striking […]

This morning, as I was getting dressed, I heard my four-year-old son exclaim, “Oh, dammit!” To say the least, I was shocked. I don’t talk like that, and I don’t recall my wife talking like that. So he must have picked it up from school, family, or (gulp) church. I don’t particularly like any of […]

PowerPoint and projectors have become almost ubiquitous in worship services. They play a number of very helpful roles in the church service, from displaying lyrics to the song to projecting Scripture and sermon notes during the message. In our sanctuary, on any given Sunday, you can also find announcements, pictures of recent church activities, comic […]

In the pursuit of a better understanding of joy, I’ve come across some rather counter-intuitive things in Scripture. For instance, sacrifice, obedience, and hardship can all actually increase the amount of joy one has. Ultimately, according to what I’m finding in the Bible, the ultimate source of joy has nothing to with the circumstances I’m […]

Toward the end of July, I received a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook as a result of attending the Google I/O developer conference. For those who don’t know exactly what a “Chromebook” is, it’s a laptop running Google’s Chrome OS which, for all intents and purposes, comprises the Chrome web browser and nothing else. In other […]

In my study of joy, I have made a discovery. The Psalms are a wealth of information about what causes joy, what steals joy, and what is joy. And this morning, I am struck by two different thoughts from two different psalms. Let’s get right to it.

Yesterday, I posted about my decision to move away from the New International Version as my primary preaching and teaching text. You can read about the reasons for that decision here. I also announced, at the end of the post, that I am intending to move to the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). I also gave […]

Why do I sin? It’s a question which people have asked since the dawn of time as they aim to understand that natural bent toward stuff which is not quite right which exists in all of us from birth. And I suppose that, at some level, it’s an honest question: it just doesn’t make any […]

So, back in January, I wrote a post about why I use the New International Version (NIV) for teaching and preaching as opposed to the King James or other translations. It was a response to a question which had been asked by one of our newest attenders and others, which you can read here: http://jgeerdes.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/why-i-use-the-niv/. In […]