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Our scripture today is Jeremiah 5:3 (MEV). O Lord, are not Your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Jeremiah is sometimes known as …
Our scripture today is Jeremiah 1:5 (ESV). Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah receives his call from God in this verse, becoming a prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah. He is perhaps not …
Our scripture this morning is Isaiah 65:17 (ESV). For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. In John’s vision from Revelation 21:1 we read “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 61:1 (ESV). The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 55:6-7 (ESV). Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 53:4-5 (ESV). Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 48:18 (ESV). Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; Here we see the conflict we cause our Heavenly Father. His commandments are right and eternal; when we break them there …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 43:1 (ESV). But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” From the very beginning God has wanted to be part of our lives and …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 40:3 (ESV). A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” The desert wilderness of sin we have allowed here is exactly where we are sent to share God’s love. John the Baptist says of himself “I …
Our scripture today is Isaiah 40:1-2 (ESV). Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. Once again Isaiah offers God’s people a hope for the …