I love how the arts can capture something in such a compelling way. Thanks Tim, this video really does capture what I was wanting to say in my message…
freedom fulfilled!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 61 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor…
question of the week
So here is the question of the week: What is your favourite Christmas tradition?
let there be light!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 60 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of…
let there be sight!
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 59 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. [Isaiah 59:1-2] According to Isaiah, the suffering and hardship that Israel…
that’s it, I need an iPad!
we seem eager and religious
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 58 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them. [Isaiah 58:2] They…
R.I.P.
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 57 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. [Isaiah 57:1-2] These opening words caught my…
question of the week
So here is the question of the week: If Jesus’ birth was really in a stable, do our festive traditions (lights, tinsel and presents) trivialize His birth?
channels of blessing
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 56 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to serve him, to love the name of the Lord, and to worship him, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant– these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house…