Get Ready for Isaiah

THIS SUNDAY WE START A NEW SERMON SERIES

For the first time in the life of our church, we turn our attention to one of the Major Prophets of the Old Testament. For the next few months, we’ll engage in a sustained study of the book of Isaiah on Sunday mornings. A book with passages you’ll find very familiar. Some that you’re used to hearing quoted around Christmas time as we celebrate the One born of a virgin (7:14) to be our “Prince of Peace” (9:6). Others that richly describe and vividly explain how that peace was achieved, like the Servant Song of Isaiah 53. But what comes between chapters 9 and 53? What about 54-66?

These familiar passages which elicit our worship and anchor our souls come in the midst of a larger story. One which finds the people of God back then struggling in ways quite similar to the people of God right now. Finding themselves in a troubled world and tempted to place their trust, set their hopes, and find their security in something other than the Lord our God - the Holy One of Israel. Through the pages of this book, we expect this God to meet us in our proneness to wander from him and show himself to be unwaveringly faithful to us.

Prepare to receive all he has for us by getting a head start on reading Isaiah and checking out this helpful introduction to the book.