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…
Isaiah 53 opens the Christmas series: a prophecy written some 2,800 years ago about a Messiah who would come as a suffering servant.