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The Gospel of Isaiah
October 28th, 2024
As humans, we tend to be forgetful. We forget our glasses that could be resting nicely on top of our heads. We forget where we put our car keys when we came shuffling in the door from the long day at work. We forget important dates, times, and events. Forgetting is just a part of life. In fact, it has been so much a part of life that even back in Biblical times, God commanded the Israelites to bui...
Poetic Devices for God's Glory
October 21st, 2024
I am sure some people read the title and had flashbacks of their high school English teacher belittling them because they could not identify a metaphor. While I am an English teacher, my hope is to not make you feel silly, but show you how these literary features glorify God. Let’s take a look at Isaiah 44:21-22 and see how God’s glory is being shown through a chiasmus and simile. ChiasmusVerse 21...
The Flower Fades. The Word Saves.
October 14th, 2024
In Isaiah 40:6-8, we read (often a popular funeral passage): All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.Peter also quotes these words of Isaiah in his first epistle. But when he does, h...