Living in Babylon

Finishing up our series on tough faith for tough times, this week focused on how to live in a "foreign land." The Prophets often wrote to Israel and Judah while they were in exile, trying to sort out how to live and have faith when you are in a world you never wanted to be in. This year, as many of us feel like we are living in a place and time we didn't want, we still need to live as people of faith. So we take Jeremiah's instructions from God to just keep living a good life where we are, add in Daniel's example to remain holy even while living among foreigners, and then see how Peter gives similar teaching to early Christians undergoing persecution. This gives us a great map for living at God's people among those who aren't.