Isaiah 43 was full of powerful promises from the Lord, and Isaiah 44 continues this theme....and then moves on to a wry critique of...

Note: This blog post was written a week before we received a difficult medical diagnosis for my daughter. The words still ring true to...

In this blog, I'm often addressing problems and issues in our world and as well as faith in the United States. After all, I started...

I frequently quote John Calvin's phrase, "The human heart is a factory of idols." Sometimes God seems to allow us to stay ignorant of...

For the past 5 years or so, I've found myself asking God to grant a peaceful year. You know, to change it up a little and--just to give...

When I was 10 years old, I started praying a prayer that, when answered, would change the course of my life. It was a prayer for a good...

As a Gen Xer (just squeaking it in between Gen X and Millenials), I'm a late comer to all things social media. I joined Twitter and...

In the midst of prophesy and Messianic passages, Isaiah 36 bursts in with historical narrative. King Sennacherib of Assyria is...

The Christian life has often been described as a pilgrimage, most famously perhaps in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Before...

The Little Hills church in Missouri did a sermon series this past March on "Six Poisons" (https://littlehills.church/safari/article/995.h...

I appreciate various worship practices and approaches across many different church traditions. Richard Foster calls these different...

"Streams of water" is a frequent image in Scripture. For example, Psalm 1 and Jeremiah 17 both describe people who are like trees planted...

A few years ago, our family enjoyed a trip to Austria. We prepped by studying German a little to pick up the basics. One of our favorite...

It started with a new opportunity and then a promotion. And then another one. And another one. A fast track accelerating my position and...

Having come of age in the 1990s, I saw the Disney The Hunchback of Notre Dame movie prior to reading Victor Hugo's novel. The emphases in...

This chapter is an example of what I had in mind when I first started this Isaiah project, looking for Messianic references, and it's a...

I devoured Beth Moore's book, Chasing Vines, when studying Isaiah 5's "Song of the Vineyard." Now in Isaiah 27, we're in the closing...

I just had to follow a similar titling as the January 27th blog post "Trees...and Perfect Peace" (https://www.isaiahfortoday.com/post/tre...

Isaiah 25 is one of the earliest Biblical references about the defeat of death. It's a powerful song of praise and smack dab in the...

Isaiah 24 starts a new section in this book that is full of both poetry and prose, historical narrative, and baffling apocalyptic...