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I wrote a blog post about four years ago regarding the believing community’s tendency to wrench Jeremiah 29:11 from its context, and how we need to give greater care, and show greater respect when working with passages of scripture. We will revisit that concept today. Jeremiah 29:11 is ubiquitous, easily found in memes, on Tee…

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This coming Sunday (August 11, 2019), I have the privilege of bringing the word of God to the family of faith at Victory Christian Fellowship in Lynden, Washington. We will be talking about the nobleman who went away to receive a kingdom and then returned (Luke 19:12-27). With so many unknowns in the world, so…

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For about ten years, I sang and played in the horn line of the band of a rather large congregation of believers in Bellingham, WA. One of the more popular tunes we played was a song drawn from Jeremiah 29:11, quoted directly from the modern NIV translation. The song had something of a Caribbean beat,…

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