Isaiah 49:1-7 {Prayer} Eating breakfast around our table one day this week, my family and I got on the topic somehow of why is it that babies cry when they are born. Maybe we got on the topic because it was cold in our house, which is what Jessica and Faith think all…
Isaiah 49:1-7 {Prayer} Eating breakfast around our table one day this week, my family and I got on the topic somehow of why is it that babies cry when they are born. Maybe we got on the topic because it was cold in our house, which is what Jessica and Faith think all…
Isaiah 40:28-31 {Prayer} Many of us have come to love the Christmas carol “O Holy Night.” First written in 1843 by a French poet, the lyrics were translated into English only a few years later by an American pastor. The carol’s initial popularity is often traced to its third stanza which is cherished by…
Isaiah 29:11-19 {Prayer} Imagine with me a for a moment. Go ahead and close your eyes if that helps you. You’re riding your horse through some dark woods on a really cold night. The leafless branches are moving back and forth in the wind. Backlight by the moon, the branches cast a dancing…
{Prayer} Even though I know we are middle of winter, I want us to skip ahead and think about a popular and interesting little creature of summer … the grasshopper. Grasshoppers are interesting in that even though one would think by their name that they just hop, they don’t really. Grasshoppers have wings and…
Isaiah 9:2-7 As we gather this morning, the theme for all of our little devotions focus around this idea of home. In case you didn’t pick up a bulletin or if you are watching this online, let me read part of the opening “As We Gather”. “An old song expresses the yearning well:…
{Prayer} Listen to these opening words of our Old Testament lesson again from Isaiah 25. “On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples. A banquet of aged wine – the best of meats and the finest of wines.” I don’t know about you, but I…
Isaiah 42:14-21 (ESV)14 For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself;now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation;I will turn the rivers into islands,[a] and dry up the pools.16 And I will lead the blind in a…
Isaiah 7:14 (ESV) 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Dear Friends in Christ, One of the most humbling parts of the Christmas season for Marilyn and me (and I’m sure Pastor Mike and Jessica would agree with this) is…
Isaiah 58:13-14 13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, 14 then…