Jeremy R. Geerdes Posts

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 […]

So yesterday, I discovered that Biblical joy is not necessarily caused by things that are going on in my life, but should definitely be the result of seeing the awesome things God is doing, regardless of whose life they’re happening in. I guess that, as a pastor, I can verify that notion because I feel […]

When I started my word study of “joy” last week, I didn’t really have any particular form that I was going to follow. Of course, I wanted to see what the Bible had to say about joy – about what it is (and is not), looks like (and doesn’t look like), is obtained (and lost), […]

Yesterday, I started my word study of “joy” by trying to form a preliminary idea of what I’m dealing with here. Check it out here if you missed. Unfortunately, as I look back at all that I learned yesterday, I realize two things. First, knowing the number of times that joy and its variants appear […]

As a Christian, I am fully aware that joy is supposed to be one of the nine components of the singular fruit of the Spirit. In other words, all believers are supposed to exhibit joy in ever-increasing measures. I’ve also seen and heard countless times that joy is not contingent on our present circumstances but […]