ŠEQER: JEREMIAH AND THE LIE THAT UNDERMINES EVERYTHING

Sometimes a single word helps put a name to something you have been struggling to understand. For me recently such a word has been šeqer (pronounced shéqer), biblical Hebrew for “falsehood,” “a lie”). I came upon šeqer in the best possible way—by accident. I was rummaging around in my library looking for books on Jeremiah. I preached this weekend, [ ]