If God is the creator, and human idolatry is our attempt to manufacture something that can take his place, then the fact that those idols are reflections of their maker – us! – completely undermines their ability to rescue us. Instead, God promises his...
John the Baptist, in prison and about to die, struggles to reconcile his current experience with his prior beliefs about Jesus the Messiah and the imminent arrival of his kingdom. Jesus, however, reminds John of who he is and what he does, encouraging John to trust...
Isaiah promises Judah that God is committed to his project of redeeming them, and the guarantee that God is able to fulfill this promise is that as creator he is wiser and greater than all humans and thus alone is able to accomplish what he sets out to do. Readings...
Happiness is vitally important to the human experience, but in spite of our culture’s conviction of the primacy of happiness, and in spite of our culture’s current ability to easily acquire those items and experiences we all are convinced have the ability to make us...
Even though the neo-Assyrian Empire destroyed much of Israel and Judah by chopping down the tree of the Davidic kings, God promises in Isaiah 11 that a shoot will come up from the severed stump; specifically, a man who will be empowered by the Holy Spirit to put down...
