Hope for exiles (Easter Day A; Jeremian 31:1-6)
The idea of preaching from Jeremiah on Easter Sunday scares me.
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The idea of preaching from Jeremiah on Easter Sunday scares me. It seems filled with landmines for the ultimate Christian faux pas: carelessly trampling over the Jewish covenant referred to by Jeremiah, announcing a sloppy supersessionist interpretation of his joyful vision of the exile’s return.
