Category: Isaiah

Encouragement for Those Who Suffer (the Old Testament Version)

* The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm. – Exodus 14:14 * Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and… Read More

Why the Prosperity Gospel is No Gospel At All

For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right. – Psalm 84:11 Can I be real with… Read More

Sunday Scripture: 3/22/15

You will keep in perfect peace     all who trust in you,     all whose thoughts are fixed on you! – Isaiah 26:3 If you have been helped by this post and think it could be helpful to someone you… Read More

The Beauty and the Ashes

To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the Lord… Read More

Where Do You Place Your Hope This Advent?

Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel… Read More

Visible Hope

Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength… Read More

The Power of Light

Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength… Read More

It’s Not You, It’s Me

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your… Read More

Recommendation Saturday: Recycled You

But now, O Lord, You are our Father,We are the clay, and You our potter;And all of us are the work of Your hand. – Isaiah 64:8 Do you feel expendable? Maybe thrown away?  No matter what condition you are in, you… Read More

NIV Streams in the Desert Bible (A Review & A Giveaway)

Then the lame shall leap like a deer, And the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, And streams in the desert. – Isaiah 35:6 Book Description At some point, every Christian… Read More