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1. Called To Pull Down; Called To Rebuild

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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Robert A. Hausman

This text is a narrative of the call of Jeremiah; but before the call narrative, we have a preface by the editor of the tradition, placing the call in its historical context (1:1-3). The word of the Lord does not exist in a vacuum and it does not work only in some spiritual realm. It is rooted in our history and related to our chronology. It came in all its specificity to Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah ...

2. Dabar Adonai

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Tony Everett

Twenty-five young teenagers are sitting at their desks in the classroom, minds focused on anything and everything except the complex algebra problem that their teacher is writing on the board. Suddenly, their reverie is broken by the word of the teacher: "I need a volunteer to come to the board and solve this simple binomial equation." Immediately, students become deeply involved with books under ...

3. You Need A Point Of Contact With The Lord

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

James McLemore

Let me describe how important a point of contact is. An experiment was performed on some baby monkeys. The baby monkeys were placed in a wire cage with two surrogate mothers: a wire imitation mother with a milk bottle, and a cloth mother with no food. The experiment was trying to determine to which of these mothers the infant monkeys would go. The monkeys fooled the experimenters. They went to the...

4. Eighteen Years Is Long Enough

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

John N. Brittain

A few weeks ago the officers of Kappa Chi, our co-ed Christian service fraternity, had a planning retreat in a small town just east of Indianapolis. We took our Saturday afternoon Burger King and Taco Bell to a picturesque park where I spotted a little boy who looked to be about five years old. He was the spitting image of my son Tim as he looked eighteen years ago when he was five. A lot of water...

5. Dispelling Ministry Illusions

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Ron Lavin

Jeremiah is often regarded as a Christ-figure, a prophet like Jesus, who suffered at the hands of his own people because he loved them enough to tell them the truth. A God-inspired man, fearlessly denouncing the religious laxity and social ills of his day, Jeremiah paid the price for his words. Tradition says that in 587 B.C., when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem as Jeremiah had predicted, his...

6. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

Text: Jeremiah 1:6 - Then, I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak ..." Jeremiah was expressing a common need of most of us. One of the miraculous abilities of the human being is his ability to speak to another human being and be understood, that the mind can communicate its thought to another mind or minds by way of speech. But how tragic it is that we misuse and waste this God-...

7. The Lightest Touch

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

Robert Bly has given us a painful and scathing analysis of our present American society. He titled his work The Sibling Society. Bly confesses he began this work in a lighthearted vein. He employed poetry, fairy tales, and legends to highlight the contradictions he noted all around him. However, he soon discovered that he was into some really serious business. Essentially, what he uncovered was th...

8. Yes!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

A few years ago there was a hot slogan aimed at kids who found themselves facing the temptations of drugs, alcohol, sex, peer pressure of all kinds. "Just Say No!" Easier said than done . . . as anyone who has longed to fit in, be popular, or just avoid making a scene can tell you. Sometimes to just say no is the hardest thing there is to say. It's so much easier to go along to get along, to blend...

9. Jeremiah 31:7-14

Jeremiah 31:7-14

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Leonard Sweet

Jeremiah's life of prophetic pronouncements spanned what were arguably the most turbulent years in the history of his nation and people. Estimated to extend from 626 to 584 B.C., the history surrounding Jeremiah's career might be likened to a roller coaster ride - punctuated by thrilling highs and dramatically plummeting lows, while racing at breakneck speed and apparently out of control. David's ...

10. Jeremiah 31:7-14

Jeremiah 31:7-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

11. Jeremiah 31:7-14

Jeremiah 31:7-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

Anyone who has ever pored over the book of Jeremiah knows that it is not exactly what you would call a "cheery read." The English language has even adopted the term "jeremiad" to describe any excessively woeful, wrathful, bad-news-bearing message or messenger. Jeremiah is renowned as a prophet of doom and gloom. He berates the people for a litany of sins and bad behavior. He preaches constantly ab...

12. Jeremiah 31:27-34

Jeremiah 31:27-34

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

It would be difficult to find another series of texts that have had the same impact and influence as those read today from the prophet Jeremiah. One of the most remarkable and unique characteristics of biblical theology is the bonded relationship God voluntarily establishes with human beings. These special relationships are given legal standing by God through formal "covenants" between God and hum...

13. Jeremiah 1:4-10

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Jeremiah has always held a special appeal. He is a vision of strength and commitment yet is a somewhat sorrowful character with whom it is easy to sympathize. Perhaps the reason Jeremiah has always found favor is that two basic factors have always defined life _ things always change and people don't like change. Nearly all people can look at their own age, their own times, and deplore the fact tha...

14. The Lord Needs You

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

God chooses the weak and unlikely people of this world to do God's work. The Bible is filled to bursting with the most astounding, incredible, powerful demonstrations of God's involvement in this world and in human lives. But perhaps the most amazing miracle that Scripture reveals to its readers is not that God created everything in the cosmos, or that God brought a tremendous flood to the earth,...

15. Jeremiah’s Credentials

Jeremiah 1:1-19

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The stage is set for the book of Jeremiah by introducing person, place, event, and historical time (1:1–3). The person is Jeremiah, whose name probably means “the Lord is exalted.” He is from a priestly line. It is unclear whether Jeremiah came from the family of Abiathar, a priest exiled by David to Anathoth (1 Kings 2:26–27). The place is Anathoth, the modern Anata, two to three miles northeast ...

16. The Call of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

Superscription (1:1-3): 1:1–3 Most prophetic books (Isa. 1:1; Hos. 1:1; Joel 1:1; Nah. 1:1) as well as some wisdom books (Prov. 1:1; Eccl. 1:1; Song Sol. 1:1) begin with a superscription that serves a similar function to a title page on a modern book. The superscription was likely added by an editor or later tradent, and in the case of Jeremiah identifies the genre, author, the author’s priestly s...

17. The Call of God

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

David E. Leininger

If you were to ask a group of people to take pencil and paper and sketch a portrait of an Old Testament prophet, many of them would come up with remarkably similar visions: an old gentleman of fierce demeanor with a long, unkempt, grey beard, dressed in flowing robes of coarse material, and perhaps with a gnarled wooden staff in his hand. It would probably look like Charlton Heston playing Moses i...

18. I Am Only . . .

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

"Five Things Christians Should Never Say," #3 Welcome on this Super Bowl Sunday. Football is a wonderful sport, but football fans can be cruel. Last season when the Dallas Cowboys were having difficulty beating anyone, there was a story going around that one of the players, while on his way to the locker room happened to look down and notice a suspicious-looking, unknown white powdery substance o...

19. Three Deadly Words

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

I'd like to tell you the story of two children. The parents of the first child were somewhat mismatched. His father was unemployed with no formal schooling. His mother was a teacher. This child, who grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, was estimated to have an IQ of 81. He was withdrawn from school after three months ” and was considered backward by school officials. The child enrolled in school two...

20. The Majesty And The Misery

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

Have you ever noticed that there is a very fine line between pain and laughter? Sometimes we laugh at a joke because we can breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else and not to us. I read recently about a born loser. I doubt that the story is true. Strange things do happen in life, however. A young man knocked on the door of an expensive home seeking odd jobs to earn money. The o...

21. Answers To Life's Three Critical Questions

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

Darden K. Caylor, a pastor in Cedar Rapids, IA, says that the day he decided to become a minister is still clearly etched in his brain. He was sitting at his Grandma Rula's house when he heard a voice speak to him from a distance. At first it was muffled, but then it became clearer. It said, "You should become a minister." Caylor couldn't believe it. Was this divine intervention? Was God really sp...

22. I Am Only . . .

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: Bring a pen, the kind that can be taken apart and has a small spring in it. Before you come to the children, take your pen apart, put the spring in your pocket and then put it back together without the spring. As an option, bring a pen for each child present. (Begin by trying to write something with your pen.) Say: My pen doesn't seem to be working properly. It looks all right. I don't se...

23. I Am Unworthy

Jeremiah 1:1-19, Jeremiah 6:1-30

Sermon

King Duncan

"Five Things Christians Should Never Say," #4 Texas pastor and author James W. Moore tells about a pastor in San Diego, CA who was called into the sanctuary early one morning. The custodian wanted him to see a strange offering that had been left on the altar. There were a pair of brown corduroy pants, a belt, a white T-shirt, a pair of tan suede boots, and a note. There were bloodstains on the sh...

24. I Am Too Young

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: Sovereign Lord, I put my hope in you; People: I have trusted you since I was young. Leader: I have relied on you all my life. People: You have protected me since the day I was born. All: I will always praise you. Collect Creator God, we come this morning a variety of believers: some of us are young, some middle-aged, and some have passed the prime of life. We are often tem...

25. The Call Of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: Lord, we come to you for protection; never let us be defeated. People: Because you are righteous, help us and rescue us. Leader: O God, rescue us from wicked people. People: From the power of cruel and evil people. Leader: Sovereign Lord, we put our hope in you. People: We have relied on you all our life. All: We will always praise you. Amen. Collect O God, we know that yo...

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