Isaiah 11 and a shoot coming up from the stump of Jesse: what grows back after everything visible has been cut down.
Isaiah’s servant has no beauty or majesty to attract us. Pastor Adam closes the series on Christmas with three things about that Jesus — despised, broken, and salvific — and…
Isaiah 53:9-10, preached on returning from two weeks with the church's sister congregation in Scotland — ruin to redemption, and a Jesus most people do not picture.
Isaiah 53:6-7. We all like sheep have gone astray, and the iniquity of us all laid on one who did not open his mouth.
Isaiah 53:4-5 on the pain that brings peace, set against the peace people go looking for elsewhere — yoga, self-help, a force in the universe.
Isaiah 53:3 and a Messiah described as despised and rejected — the child born at Christmas seen as the suffering servant, with a challenge to read the passage daily through…