Come, Behold the Wondrous Mystery Enjoy this hymn as you prepare for or reflect on worship today........  Read More

Weekly Examen The Examen is a centuries-old practice in the church that invites us to prayerfully reflect on our days in the presence of God.EXAMENPrayerfully reflect on your days in the presence of G...  Read More

The Destruction of Sennacherib Assyria and the anapest.  I’ve been waiting since Don started this sermon series on Isaiah to post this poem, “The Destruction of Sennacherib” by George Gordon, aka Lord...  Read More

Seeking God in the Storm Don will be preaching this week on Isaiah 36-39, which you can read HERE.Here are some questions from a RightNow! study called  The Gospel of Isaiah.  You can access your Righ...  Read More

Now, where are we?  We recently looked at on overview of the book of an Isaiah to get a sense of where we have been and where we are going.  I think it may be helpful as well to review the video below...  Read More

The fool will no more be called noble, Nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. – Isaiah 32:5 (ESV)Most Christians have a sense of their own failures.  Whether it is real humility or false humility, yo...  Read More

A look back, a look ahead As we are reading such a long book, it’s a good idea from time to time to take a check-up as to where we are and where we have been.Look over your notes from Isaiah.  If you ...  Read More

Isaiah 28-35As a preparation for the sermon today, you may choose to read the passage here.Before or after you read, you may want to reflect on some of the following verses, thoughts and questions:In ...  Read More

“I keep it night and day;I have no wrath.Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!I would march against them,I would burn them up together.Or let them lay hold of my protections,Let them make peac...  Read More

Hope In Crisis Normally on Thursdays, I introduce the text of the upcoming sermons with a few guiding questions.  Today, I’m going to step back from that format and talk about hope.We are the church. ...  Read More

Hope by Emily Dickinson How do words of this famous poem relate to what we have been learning in Isaiah?Is Dickinson talking about the same kind of hope as Isaiah?  How do you know?According to the po...  Read More

The challenge yesterday was to do one act of hope each day.  Embrace the day knowing that the culmination of all good things will occur.  Isaiah spoke about this in Isaiah 25-27 and John reiterated th...  Read More