How can we use Isaiah 40 to be our guide and comfort heading into a new year? Justin and Scott discuss this and more on this week's podcast. The Words of Grace Podcast seeks to clarify, amplify, and apply the Sunday morning sermon at Grace Community...
The renewing vision for the downcast and disheartened, for doubters and those in despair, for all who are in some kind of darkness, is God in his greatness and grace. Isaiah’s prophecy to the exiles points to Jesus Christ who came as the triumphant king...
Scott and Justin look at Isaiah 40. This chapter shows us both the depths of our sin and the beauty of God’s grace. The Words of Grace Podcast seeks to clarify, amplify, and apply the Sunday morning sermon at Grace Community Church. From time to time...
This prophecy addresses a despondent people with the message that the Lord has not deserted them. The grace of the Lord abounds for forgiveness, deliverance, and the renewal we need to walk humbly and joyfully with him. This is the comfort with which the Lord...
Up to this point in Isaiah, the prophetic call to the people of Judah and Jerusalem has been to trust completely and only in the Lord. Now we come to an on-the-ground, real-life example of what that trust looks like. Hezekiah and the people come...
These two chapters of Isaiah are poetic prophesies of contrasting destinations. One final reality is judgement and the wrath of God. The other is life in the presence of the holy God who dwells with his redeemed in a place of glory and good. The...
The message that runs throughout the Bible is that the Lord is our king. He reigns over all things and he saves his people. Our response to this revelation of God is to trust him. In these chapters, Isaiah gives us the promise of the...
This section of Isaiah returns to the exposure of the sins of God’s people. Five “woes” reveal the grievance that the Lord has against them. But woven throughout are promises of his grace and the call to repent and to trust him. This is reality....
The city plays a prominent role in the Bible. It can represent human society living apart from God and in rebellion against him. This city will come to an end. But another city gives us a vision of our future with God. This is the...
A common misunderstanding about God is that he is Lord over only those who profess him to be, and that they are the only ones accountable to him. But Isaiah, and all the Bible, reveals that God is Lord of all; every person and all...
