Isaiah 11 and a shoot coming up from the stump of Jesse: what grows back after everything visible has been cut down.
Jesus leaves after John is imprisoned, and Pastor Adam refuses the obvious reading: this is strategic withdrawal, into border country Isaiah called deep darkness. God does some of his best…
Joseph was faithful to the law, and yet would not expose Mary to disgrace. Pastor Adam makes those three words the hinge — faithfulness to the law required her death…
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.