What's the Plan for 2022?
Last year, I started with exploring Messianic references in Isaiah and then ended up focusing on this book's messages for the modern...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Jan 5, 20229 min
Coming Full Circle
I began this blog last December (2020) as an exercise extended from my personal devotions, which were going to be an exploration of...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Dec 29, 20216 min
Modern-Day Shepherds
We're still inhabiting the Christmas season, in between the Western world's celebration of Christmas, and the eastern Orthodox...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Dec 22, 20217 min
Questions and Earthiness
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! Have you ever begged God to just do...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Dec 15, 20215 min
Why, O Lord?
Earlier (see https://www.isaiahfortoday.com/post/future-promises), I mused on God's promises in light of present realities. Are the...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Dec 8, 20218 min
Future Promises
I struggled reading Isaiah 62 a little. This chapter is on the "vindication and salvation of Zion," according to the NRSV title for this...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Dec 1, 20218 min
The Year of the Lord's Favor
For Christians, Isaiah 61 is famous because Jesus reading the Isaiah scroll at the synagogue in Nazareth is one of the opening moments of...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Nov 24, 20215 min
Get Up and Shine!
Isaiah 60 starts the beautiful conclusion to the book of Isaiah: the coming kingdom of the Messiah. And it kick-starts with a powerful...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Nov 17, 20217 min
We Acknowledge Our Iniquities
Isaiah 59 is the perfect sermon. It begins with a "hook"-- Do you think that suffering and injustice occurs because God is unable to do...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Nov 12, 202111 min
"Can the Religious Right Be Saved?"
Isaiah 58 continues God's pointed comments against God's chosen people, leaders and everyday folks included. The overall outline of the...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Nov 6, 20218 min
The Righteous
It's been heart-breaking over the past few years to see social media posts of friends mourning the loss of loved ones due to COVID or...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Nov 3, 202110 min
God's Great, Inclusive, All-Encompassing Love
Isaiah is definitely a favorite book of reference for the New Testament figures, including Jesus. Christ famously overturned the tables...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Oct 27, 20216 min
The Invitation
For the past few years, I've tended to go on a major shopping spree on my birthday. I'm not a big clothes shopper and I don't really like...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Oct 20, 20216 min
"Expect great things from God"
It's been a rough couple of years, and yet there are beautiful moments of hope and strength intermixed with the difficulty. I've blogged...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Oct 13, 20216 min
Cross-Shaped Hole
I had the opportunity recently to sing in an alumni choir at my alma mater. One of the songs we performed, "Lift Up the Cross," has a...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Oct 6, 20215 min
Good News Is Coming!
Anyone familiar with the famous modern hymn, Our God Reigns, has seen these words, which are originally from Isaiah 52:7: How beautiful...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Sep 29, 20218 min
What Will Become of Us?
"What is wrong with the American Christian church and how can its witness and ministry be renewed?" asks pastor Tim Keller in the opening...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Sep 22, 20217 min
Walking in Light
I've been encouraged lately by the stories of people experiencing severe illness and yet overcoming physical limitations to exude joy and...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Sep 15, 20214 min
For the Love of God
It all hinges on God's love. In moments of darkness and doubt, one can either abandon faith or start going through the motions of a...
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Stephanie Wilsey
Sep 8, 20215 min
Listen
Pretty much every parent knows the art of repetition. And the more important something is, the more it gets repeated. So, when I find...
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DISCOVER ISAIAH FOR TODAY
66 Days with Isaiah
Welcome to Isaiah for Today, my 2021 project to reflect on what the infamous year of 2020 has shown us and compare the American situation to 8th century BC Judah. There are surprising similarities! Join me on this journey through the book of Isaiah.
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