Jeremy Riley: In a few words

Do you think that we should get everything right when it comes to believing in God? It might be odd hearing this from someone with a Masters in Theology, but I really don’t think so.  I have written several times here that God is not concerned about us getting things right.  He’s not primarily concerned [...]

Do not abandon yourselves to despair.  We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. -Pope John Paul II Do you ever find yourself abandoning hope in the moments chaos and despair?  Do you find yourself ever waking in the middle of the night and not knowing how you’re going to get through the [...]

Our pastor recently said that what is true about Jesus will be true of those who are united in Christ. Think about that for a second.   If we have been united in Christ, we too can share the same Spirit of power that raised Jesus from the dead.  Pretty incredible! In Christ I did [...]

My time at Fuller Seminary has dramatically shaped me in many ways.  One of the ways that it has formed me is the profound realization that Christianity is not concerned primarily with “going to heaven when I die.” Please hear me out before you send off a tweet like, “Farewell @jeremydriley” or “@jeremydriley has gone [...]

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; For those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow, And [...]

Do you think God deals with us all in the same manner?  Do you think every person needs to affirm the same thing, quit the same sins, and all become something new? I’m going to be honest here, and say something very candid.  It might offend some, and I’m sorry if I do.  Please hear [...]

“Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.” Psalm 100:3 Something that I have learned this past year is that knowing something to be true is one thing.  Knowing something deep in your gut is something [...]

I discovered something recently.  I discovered the power of a simple prepositional phrase.  Admittedly, that phrase is a little odd when you first hear it.  It is a little odd because we don’t speak like this too often.  And that phrase is something I try to orient my life around, a newfound reality, if you [...]

(Below is a modified version of a devotional that I wrote for my church.  It is based on the readings from these passages of Scripture: Psalm 63, 98; Daniel 9:3-10; Hebrews 2:10-18; John 12:44-5) Put yourself in the sandals of a First Century Jew.  All you have ever known about God has been told to you [...]

As I sat in the rows of an Anglican Church on Ash Wednesday, I was struck by an idea- those who are in Christ are marked and sealed as a community of the cross.  Those in churches who observe Lent and Ash Wednesday receive ash on the forehead as a sign of repentance and our [...]