Isaiah 11:1-10 A stump speaks of what has been. A long time ago an acorn lay in the ground. It was buried under the leaves and other debris of the forest. It disappeared from sight until one day a tiny shoot came up out of the ground. It managed not to be stepped on or [...]
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Isaiah 9:2-7 I was an Emergency Medical Technician during my years as a pastor in Ohio in the early 1980s. EMTs are trained to arrive at an emergency and stabilize the person injured or sick and then take them to the hospital. When there was an emergency, the siren went off and we were called. [...]
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Isaiah 40:1-11 All over the western world and maybe elsewhere at this time of year at thousands of concert halls or churches or school auditoriums, this scenario is being played out. You may have been an observer or maybe even a participant in one of these events. The audience is assembled and then the musicians [...]
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Isaiah 40:27-31 I was in the US from August 30 until September 9 for the wedding of my nephew and a memorial service for my mother. The week before I returned, I was at the home of my wife’s parents west of Boston in Massachusetts. We sat in their screened porch each lunch looking out [...]
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Isaiah 40:27-31 I was in the US from August 30 until September 9 for the wedding of my nephew and a memorial service for my mother. The week before I returned, I was at the home of my wife’s parents west of Boston in Massachusetts. We sat in their screened porch each lunch looking out [...]
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