Isaiah 1:21-21 What do you do when someone you love is suffering because of poor choices they made? What do you do when someone you love is trapped in addiction and a string of broken relationships? You lament; you grieve. What do you do when your country is suffering because of the lack of values…
Isaiah 1:10-20 Last week we began a series of sermons on the book of Isaiah. Isaiah does not open his book on a cheery note. The opening of this book paints a picture of a bloodied and bruised people, bloodied and bruised because of choices they have made, because of their sin. Godās response to…
Isaiah 1:1-9 Isaiah is the first of the prophets in our Bible and is viewed as the greatest of the prophets. Isaiah is the second most quoted book in the New Testament. What is the most quoted book? The third most quoted book? In the New Testament there are 68 quotations from the Psalms, 55…
Various texts āWar is hell.ā William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union general in the American Civil War, is credited with this line and he knew first hand what he was talking about. He saw the death and destruction of thousands of young men and he himself created much of the destruction as he created a āscorched…
Various texts One of my favorite Mark Twain books is Letters from the Earth. This is a book that was not permitted to be published until 1962, fifty-two years after his death, because his daughter thought the material represented a ādistorted view of her fatherās ideas and attitudesā. The first part of this book is…