Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

I disdain politics. All of the promising, posturing, and pomp drive me nuts. And when I read a passage such as 1 Kings 1, I am reminded again of just how frustrating politics are. The story is classic. As David grew older, debate swirled over which of his sons would succeed him as king. There […]

When was the last time my heart boasted in the Lord? No, it’s not a trick question. The key to grasp is that I’m not boasting in myself or anything I did, etc. I’m boasting in the Lord and what He did. As I return after some distractions and rabbit trails to the subject of […]

“The ends justify the means.” I don’t know how many times I’ve heard this statement or some equivalent over the years. The government does it: we need to balance the budget, so we’ll hang teachers, the elderly, the middle class, etc., out to dry. Businesses do it: we need to cut costs to pad the […]

Whenever I think about joy, I generally think about the joy that I should have in my life. And though I am embarrassed to admit it, usually, those thoughts take the form of “If I only had this, then I would be really joyful.” Today, though, I stumbled across Deuteronomy 30:9 where, after outlining all […]

Hell is all over the news right now. Between Rob Bell’s new book, Love Wins, and the firestorm it has started among evangelical circles, Hell-related headlines have appeared on Google News almost daily for over a month now. And rightfully so. The questions and answers which Bell presents in his book have ramifications of eternal […]

For the last three weeks, I’ve been preaching about ideas. More specifically, about the endless deluge of ideas with which we are constantly presented in this day and age. Some of these ideas are good and beneficial to our lives and our faith, but some of them are not so much. For three Sundays now, […]

I have a friend who once told me that serving God is all about obedience. Now, ordinarily, I would be inclined to agree: the Bible is pretty clear that, if you love God, you will obey. But this particular friend had convinced himself that obedience to God trumped everything: his church, his family, and even […]

Now that Christmas is done and things have quieted just a bit, I’m coming back to my word study of joy and hoping to catch up. And as I do so, I find myself back in the book of Deuteronomy, where I pick up again in chapter 27, where Moses commanded the Israelites in versus […]

So, today did not go at all as I had expected it to go. With the weather bearing down last night, I had expected Nicole to have either a late start or no school today. And I rather expected Bekah to have no school as well. So I was really hoping to blow snow in […]

At the end of one of our adult Sunday School classes yesterday, an interesting conversation came up when a guest mentioned that she preferred the King James Version over the New International Version, finding it easier to understand and more reliable in translation from the original Hebrew and Greek to English. I wish I had […]