IX.This week’s Scripture passage seems especially fitting for today, Good Friday. I invite you to first read the passage in light of today’s recollection of the trials and crucifixion of Jesus. Isaiah 53:4-11 Surely he has borne our infirmitiesand carried … Continue reading
To refresh your reading of this Scripture passage you can follow this link to the passage in the New Revised Standard Version and The Message –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2053%3A4-11&version=NRSV;MSG V.I asked in the last post to consider Jesus’ years with his followers and … Continue reading
I.We approach Easter Sunday this week. Yesterday, in many churches, the Gospel reading took us back to Palm Sunday when cheering people greeted Jesus. This week we move through the week with Jesus in Jerusalem maybe noting some of the … Continue reading
Welcome to a New Year, 2021. VII.As you take a moment to turn your attention to this week’s Scripture passage –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A14-22&version=NRSV;MSG Pay particular attention to – “…to set the burdened and battered free, to announce, ‘This is God’s year to … Continue reading
This week’s Scripture can be read at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A14-22&version=NRSV;MSG IV.Spend some time with the portions of Isaiah our Gospel text references – “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,because he has anointed meto bring good news to the poor.He has … Continue reading
I.Last week we heard John the Baptist speak of the one who brings the Kingdom. This week we follow Jesus into his hometown synagogue and hear his reading words from the Isaiah scroll and his commentary on that reading. What … Continue reading
IX.This week we have looked at the images Isaiah uses to help us see and enter God’s Kingdom. As we close our week with Isaiah, let’s look again at the passage in Isaiah 62 Isaiah 62:2-4 (New Revised Standard Version) … Continue reading
VI.On the last post I asked you to pay attention to the image/metaphor in the Isaiah passages that grabbed your attention the most, the primary image that stayed with you after reading the passages. I hope you spent time with … Continue reading
I.We started April reflecting on one of the Servant Songs in Isaiah and we move to the close of April reflecting on a passage from Isaiah 61 and another from Isaiah 62. I’d like us to start our week reading … Continue reading
VI.Where is the sustaining power and strength for the servant(s). Look over the passage and notice what it tells us about the “God, The Lord.” Even from the first sentences we begin to draw a picture of the God Isaiah … Continue reading