Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

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 […]

The title of this post pretty much sums up the lessons about joy to be found in Deuteronomy 16. As Moses moves on to discuss the three major feasts of the Jewish year – Passover, Weeks, and Tabernacles – he uses the word “rejoice” three times in five verses. As I’ve said before, any time […]

It’s been nearly a month since I last posted about my study of joy. I wish that I could say that I simply got behind in my blogging, but I am rather ashamed to admit that the truth is that I got behind in my devotions. To go for a month with virtually no devotions […]

Joe Wilcox over at BetaNews wrote up an article about all the questions surrounding Chrome OS. He discloses up front that he has not yet received a CR-48 (which I have taken to calling simply “crate”), and from the comments which inspired his article (and those posted at the bottom of it), it would appear […]

Okay, so I’ve been tinkering with this thing for a bit now, and I have some initial thoughts about the Google Chrome notebook (aka CR-48). Here we go. Initial impressions are that it’s not as dastardly looking as many of the initial impressions on the web would have you believe. It is definitely matte black, […]

Dear politicians, First off, I want to thank you for your willingness to serve. Yours is a job of profound import and influence which we citizens too often take for granted when the latest media pundits appear on our screens to tell us (and you) all about how you should do your job. Moreover, thank […]

It’s been a few days since I’ve been able to really sit down and work on my study of joy. So the other day, even though I wouldn’t have time to write about my findings, I was ready to get back into it. I was not ready, however, to discover that the next twelve occurrences […]