Isaiah – Page 4 – The Nexus

Digging in Deeper: Isaiah 30:26

April 18, 2018April 17, 2018Leave a comment

“Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Have you experienced the “blow” of the Lord? Israel was a stubborn group. They had the Law from Moses and an overwhelming amount of evidence to support the wisdom of following that particular path as the only way to life and flourishing, but still, they constantly looked at the nations around them with envy in their hearts. Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Isaiah 45:22

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018Leave a comment

“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Did you know that your thumb is bigger than a house? Don’t believe me? Next time you go outside, find a house or any other building around you. Once you’ve located just the right one, close one eye and hold your thumb up in front of the open one. Now, move it in a bit closer. Closer still. Just a bit more. Magically, the house is gone and all you can see is your thumb. If you can’t see the house when your thumb is in front of it, your thumb must be bigger right? Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Isaiah 6:8

March 14, 2018March 15, 2018Leave a comment

“And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here I am! Send me.'” (ESV – Read the chapter)

There is a real sense on the part of too many that the call of God is only something experienced by people who He is calling to full-time, professional ministry. I experienced this call in my own life and still remember it clearly. I can remember where I was sitting and what the are around me looked like in almost as much detail as the morning I proposed to Lisa. Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Isaiah 57:21

November 17, 2017November 15, 2017Leave a comment

“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” (ESV – Read the chapter)

Culturally, we are often taught to think about peace in terms of an absence of conflict. In the Scriptures, peace is a much more robust concept than that. It contains the idea of an absence of conflict, yes, but more than just physical conflict, peace in the Bible is concerned with an absence of conflict with God. It is concerned with a sense of wholeness and completeness to life. When we have peace, all is right inside of us, whether or not it is right around us. Read the rest…

Digging in Deeper: Isaiah 44:18-20

November 15, 2017November 14, 2017Leave a comment

“They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, ‘Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?’ He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, ‘Is there not a lie in my right hand?'” (ESV – Read the chapter)

This and the few verses on either side of it is one of my favorite passages in the whole Old Testament. It ranks up there for me as one of the best in the Bible. That may not be a very spiritual answer to the question of what this preacher’s favorite verse is, but read it again for yourself. It’s hilarious. No other passage in the Bible captures the sheer idiocy of idolatry quite so well as this one does. And it does it with a sarcastic sense of humor that resonates really well with my own. Read the rest…