How do we deal with our dismay over what seems like a brutal and bloodthirsty characterization of the same Lord Who later claims to love the whole earth?
Isaiah 34: Day of Reckoning
It is as though God will hit the rewind button and bring all of creation back to its starting point.
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Isaiah 34: Destiny of Redemption
Now, the prophet was going to wrap up these twenty chapters between 13 and 33 with two summary chapters.
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Isaiah 33: Sennacherib’s Duplicity
The way to receive from the Lord is to open our minds, hearts, spirits, and hands and then put to use by faith what the Lord gives.
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Revelation 8: Contest of the Gods
There is one last correlation that almost certainly would have come to mind for John’s audience—the Exodus.
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Isaiah 32: Shalom
All of us have experienced being in the desert places. Perhaps that is where you are right now. What act of repentance is God calling of you in order to make you ready for the outpouring of God’s Spirit in your desert place to bring back life?
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Isaiah 31: When the Chips Are Down
Our real crisis is always going to be about faith, about being more impressed with human plans, human ingenuity, and human control rather than God’s wisdom, God’s character, God’s promises, and God’s will.
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Isaiah 30: Commitment of Faith
In order to understand what faith is, you and I have to actually use it. A person does not really have faith until that person lives it out, boots on the ground, real life, real dilemmas, real crises.
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Isaiah 29: Saving Faith
This was the strange way God was going to inspire their faith, and often, it is the strange way God brings you and me back to center as well.
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Isaiah 28: Six Slinky Chapters
The following six chapters, Isaiah 28-33, are like a Slinky, or an eagle in the updraft. In a series of sermons, Isaiah gives a woe, then a promise and call to faith, then he wheels back to the woe, and again to a promise and call to faith.
Grace and Peace, Joanne 