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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: First, the Bad News
Description: First, the Bad News – We are in a series of Sundays during which we are exploring the Book of Jeremiah. Last week the scripture and sermon were about the call of Jeremiah to be a prophet when he was but a child. This week the reading is from a section in Jeremiah 2 wherein God’s word delivered by Jeremiah denounces the idolatry and faithlessness of God’s people, thus giving the bad news before giving the good news. This section is very much the language of litigation in which God, through Jeremiah, first lays out what God had done for the pe...