I preached the following message on Sunday, January 15, 2023. It was inspired in part by the book I mention below. It is based on the story found in Isaiah 36-37. My main text was King Hezekiah's prayer found in Isaiah 37:15-20. In her wonderful and challenging book, The Deepest Belonging: A Story About Discovering …
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The Lord is Our Strength
This sermon was preached on Sunday, July 31, 2022. Do you not know?Have you not heard?The Lord is the everlasting God,the Creator of the whole earth.He never becomes faint or weary;there is no limit to his understanding.He gives strength to the faintand strengthens the powerless.Youths may become faint and weary,and young men stumble and fall,but …
Prayer #5: Praying to Our Father in Heaven
Yet Lord, you are our Father;we are the clay, and you are our potter;we all are the work of your hands.Lord, do not be terribly angryor remember our iniquity forever.Please look—all of us are your people!Isaiah 64:8-9 In the Bible, God is called Father. Jesus teaches his disciples about God the Father, including how to …
“It is God who saves”
I have two kinds of posts here on my blog. One is of the long sort, reflections on my own life or perhaps on something going on in our world from the perspective of faith. Other blog posts are very short, consisting often of a prayer or Scripture that I thought I'd share. This post …