Deus Misereatur

  I know lots of people like this book, and like this stream of published material. I'm not a Dispensationalist (by conviction) and I am resistant to alarmism - that doom-and-gloomism that says "This is the worst time in all of world history!" or some such. And that is this book from cover-to-cover. I picked the book up to read because a family member had given it to me for a Christmas present and thought I should read it. And I was disappointed. But, in all of my disappointment, I was pleasantly surprised. I was pleasantly surprised because Dr. Jeremiah actually pushes back against a certain mindset that normally walks along with Dispensational alarmism. Jeremiah asks "Will America revive again? Will we reverse our descent and regain respect, strength, and stability? ... those are not the questions we should really be asking. If the survival of America and the stability of the world are the sources of your hope, then your hope is sadly misplaced. The question you mu...

  In just a few short weeks my wife and I will be celebrating 45 years of marriage. I state this, not because we're better and more "with it" than others. It really has been two sinners saved by grace who are bound together. But I say this to point out, in many ways I have never experienced what Marcus Farris - Post Traumatic Growth Director for Mission 22 (an organization dedicated to supporting veterans and their families) and former Army Engineering officer - experienced. Farris chronicles the inner details of his soul and mind during his painful divorce in this 132-page paperback, "No Less Faithful: How the Scars of Divorce Reveal the Heart of God" published in 2021. As the author asserts, "God never wastes pain" (ix) and his story shows what he means. The book exhibits the inner chaos, the mental storm, the messy soul that comes surfaces in a crisis like an imploding marriage. Everything from the self-inflicted gut-punch (so to speak) to the faith...

  Mighty God, who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, who says “ I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite .” [1] O dwell with us and revive us! O Lord, our Lord, we pray for Heritage Presbyterian Church; for these churches around Oklahoma City, Neighborhood Missionary Baptist, New Beginning Family Church, New Covenant MBC, and New Harvest Fellowship; as well as for your church in all places. We all profess our love and adoration for you, and that we are saved by your invasive love. Now, Lord, cause us to become what you have made us: Children of the Living, Holy God, who are no longer wooed by the father of lies, who are no longer caught in the snares of our own lusts and pride, but those who are thoroughly loyal to you. Give us aid and strength to be a healing people, caring for and defending the fatherless, widow, abused, be...