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James McLemore
In this first chapter of the book, Isaiah examines the nation of Judah as it looked during the reign of four kings: Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. As he examines them, he reflects on what Judah looks like when God looks at the nation. He tells Judah that when God looks at you, you don't look like yourself. Your name is Judah, and you are the people of Jerusalem. Judah means the "praise of God...
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Chrysanne Timm
I heard it again at a meeting last week ... a comment about the length of the worship service. Somewhere along the way, people in our Christian tradition came up with the idea that worship should last about no more than sixty minutes. The comment was innocent enough and was being made in reference to recommendations our ministry team would be making regarding the Sunday morning schedule of w...
3. Star-spangled Justice
Isaiah 1:1, 10-20
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Lee Ann Dunlap
In just a few more weeks we will be winding down the official summer season. The children start back to school and we all have one final summer fling during the Labor Day holiday weekend. Patriotic holidays like Flag Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day are best celebrated in the hot summer sun or watching "the rocket's red glare" under the stars. Summer holidays have a tradition all their own: h...
4. Religion and Politics
Isaiah 1:1, 10-20
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David E. Leininger
Religion and politics - in years past we were told those were two subjects that were not good for pleasant conversation. In the church, many of us grew up hearing that religion and politics should be kept strictly apart - "separation of church and state," after all. But in recent years, we have been treated to regular helpings of both from every point on the partisan spectrum. There are regular re...
5. True Disciples
Isaiah 1:1-31
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Leonard Sweet
Dead Heads. That name probably makes you either cringe, chuckle, or shake your head. Boomers – now with graying hair and growing girths – are the most likely to chuckle. What Boomer doesn't recall the hype and hypnotism of that apparently indefatigable '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s rock band, the Grateful Dead? No band came to stand for a whole generation's growing pains like the Grateful Dead. Bo...
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Maxie Dunnam
Back in the early 1980's, there was a best- selling book entitled Blue Highways. The novel chronicles one man's adventures along the back roads and secondary highways of America. His journeys took him into crossroad villages and almost forgotten towns where he met all kinds of interesting people, including a few hitchhikers whom he befriended. Among the hitchhikers was a Bible-toting self styled e...
7. Let's Live
Isaiah 1:1-31
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Richard L. Sheffield
Then let's get with it! Thus says the Lord our God, speaking through the mouth of his prophet Isaiah, to his people: people who didn't get it then and people who "still don't get it now." Actually I think we do get it; we just don't get around to getting it done, do we? Living as God says to live? God says: "... Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the or...
8. True or False?
Isaiah 1:1-31
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John W. Wurster
“Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah” (1:10; cf. Genesis 19). Sodom. Gomorrah. Remember? Places of wickedness, of violence, of perversity. Do you know any place like that? Places where sexuality is twisted and relationships are corrupted and social order is breaking down? Places where people seek to gratify personal desires at ...
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David E. Leininger
Religion and politics. In years past, we were told those were two subjects that were not good for pleasant conversation. In the church, many of us grew up hearing that religion and politics should be kept strictly apart - "separation of church and state," after all. But in 2004, we are being treated to regular helpings of both from every point on the partisan spectrum. There are regular references...
10. Step Six - Willingness
Jn 5:2-9a · Heb 4:14-16 · Is 1:12-20
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John A. Terry
Step six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Here is Isaiah, whom we saw in last week's text being so awed by God's presence, so totally aware of his uncleanness before God. His was a majestic experience of worship. In this morning's text God speaks through Isaiah, questioning the validity of the people's worship. The local Chamber of Commerce recently came ou...
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