El Cajon — You walk into Brad Jeremiah’s spacious backyard and expect to see a tire hanging from a tree, a bucket of footballs maybe two first downs in the distance. Throw the ball through the ...

Another lesson from Jeremiah’s teaching tree: It’s defiant. Although this text reads like a cousin to Psalm 1, Holladay points out a significant difference: “Psalm 1:3 . . . describes a tree that is ...