Sermons on Isaiah
Readings: Isaiah 40: 21- 31 Mark 1: 29-39 Isaiah 40:21-31 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants…
Readings: Exodus 33: 12-17 Isaiah 45: 1-7 1 Thessalonians 1: 1-7 Most of us know the story of Moses and his encounter with God at the burning bush, found in Exodus chapter 3, verses 1 to 17. Although Moses was Jewish, he had been cast as a baby into the Nile River in a woven…
This morning we are looking at Isaiah once again, but now a chapter towards the end. You may recall that as a whole book, I explained that it can be viewed as 2 parts, chapters 1 to 39, and then from chapter 40 to the end. As a whole, Isaiah addresses the Babylonian exile of…
Last week’s sermon focused on Isaiah 49, verses 1 to 7 and in particular verse 4. But my work seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose! As part of that sermon, we looked at the warning that Jesus gave the disciples on the night of the betrayal, that…
Over one hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt gave what would become one of the most widely quoted speeches of his career. In addition to touching on his own family history, war, human and property rights, Roosevelt railed against cynics who looked down at men who were trying to make the world a better place. People like…
He shall not judge Isaiah 11:2-4 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge…
Sunlight is said to be the best bleach and streetlamps the most effective police officers… Lectionary Readings: Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Luke 1:46b-55 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-24 John 1:6-8; 19-28 Growing up here in Panama, I went to Boarding School in Chame. As a child, after playing games or skating on the basketball court, we’d head…