Sermons on Isaiah

“Being Born”

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…

“Being Born”

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…

“What are the Pots Saying?”

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…

“Life as a Grasshopper”

{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…

The Feast of All Feasts

{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…

Causing the Blind to See

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…

The Perfect Christmas Friend

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…

No More Excuses

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…