{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Doable Discipleship","title":"Navigating the Bible: Jeremiah","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3452,"description":"“But this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring my people back again from all the countries where I will scatter them in my fury. I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety. They will be my people, and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me. I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land. - Jeremiah 32:37-41\nJeremiah is a book not for the faint of heart. It’s a big book, 52 chapters and with a greater word count than any other book in the Bible. It’s a troubling book - the warnings from a prophet of God telling people what is going to befall them if they don’t repent and turn back to the God of their ancestors. It’s a sad book as it tells of the destruction of Jerusalem. There’s no doubt, Jeremiah is a behemoth of an Old Testament book. But, it’s not a book to ignore by any means. At its heart, even with the difficult things in the book, Jeremiah is still a book about hope. It’s still a book about the faithfulness of God. The passage I read at the beginning from Jeremiah 32 makes that clear. We learn so much about God in this book - it’s truly a rich, theological text. But like I said, it’s not for the faint of heart so to help us navigate this book today is Dr. Jerry Hwang, author of the ESV commentary on Jeremiah. \nDoable Discipleship is a podcast produced and hosted by Jason Wieland. \nResources Related to This Episode:\nhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1433546485/?tag=bestinclass-20\nSubscribe to the Doable Discipleship podcast at Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doable-discipleship/id1240966935) or Spotify...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7OJPFZ1BVid15mytuE09pcNRX6wtMP0qLFKZeqQtDh4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMDg4/MTE1OTkzODQ4ZDBl/MTg0ZGY4NDE0OTlm/MDk5NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}