It's funny how fads can flip us to opposite extremes--to the point that the extreme we're in right now makes it hard to imagine that an...

Writing in Time magazine about COVID-19 early in the pandemic, Biblical scholar N.T. Wright said, It is no part of the Christian...

At the start of this year, I set forth to explore the Prosperity Gospel's "health and wealth" tendrils in my life and in the wider...

I've heard the phrase, "best life now," at least a few times this week, although I just now made the connection that this is the title of...

My writings on this blog have entered a patch of thought on self-denial. And yet, somewhat ironically, I find myself going down the...

Picking up where I left off on the topic of self-denial in the last post, I'll begin with a story. There once was a girl named Catherine....

This series began by referencing Piper's Six Keys to Detecting the Prosperity Gospel (https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/six-keys-to-...

While I've been familiar with the Psalm verse, "The Lord is close to the broken-hearted," I can honestly say I've never given much...

In the last post (https://www.christianmusingsfortoday.com/post/is-it-all-for-the-best), I concluded by saying we need a Part II on...

In the first post of the new year, I concluded with, "How do we find joy in and through suffering and in how can we find our joy in...

To kick off the "You have heard it said..." series for this year, we'll start with some big-picture ideas that come out of understanding...

Last year, I started with exploring Messianic references in Isaiah and then ended up focusing on this book's messages for the modern...

I began this blog last December (2020) as an exercise extended from my personal devotions, which were going to be an exploration of...

We're still inhabiting the Christmas season, in between the Western world's celebration of Christmas, and the eastern Orthodox...

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! Have you ever begged God to just do...

Earlier (see https://www.isaiahfortoday.com/post/future-promises), I mused on God's promises in light of present realities. Are the...

I struggled reading Isaiah 62 a little. This chapter is on the "vindication and salvation of Zion," according to the NRSV title for this...

For Christians, Isaiah 61 is famous because Jesus reading the Isaiah scroll at the synagogue in Nazareth is one of the opening moments of...

Isaiah 60 starts the beautiful conclusion to the book of Isaiah: the coming kingdom of the Messiah. And it kick-starts with a powerful...

Isaiah 59 is the perfect sermon. It begins with a "hook"-- Do you think that suffering and injustice occurs because God is unable to do...