Weekly Newsletter

“You have forgotten your God, your salvation, and not remembered the Rock, your fortress.” (Isaiah 17:10) “How comely upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger announcing peace, who brings tidings of good, who heralds salvation.” (Isaiah 52:7) “Hear me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness: I have brought near my righteousness; it […]

“Thus says the Lord: Observe justice and perform righteousness, for my salvation will soon come when my righteousness is revealed.” (Isaiah 56:1) “Listen to me, my people; give heed to me, O my nation: The law shall go forth from me; my precepts shall be a light to the peoples. Then, suddenly, I will act:

“My servant whom I sustain, my chosen one in whom I delight, him I have endowed with my Spirit; he will dispense justice to the Gentiles. . . . Thus says Jehovah, God, who frames and suspends the heavens, who gives form to the earth and its creatures, the breath of life to the people

“An oracle concerning Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in vision: Raise the ensign on a barren mountain; sound the voice among them! Beckon them with the hand to advance into the precincts of the elite. I have charged my holy ones, called out my valiant ones: my anger is not upon those

“O Lord, be favorable toward us; we have waited for you. Be our [strength of] arm from morning to morning, our salvation in troubled times.” (Isaiah 33:2) “O that you would rend the heavens and descend, the mountains melting at your presence—as when fire is lit for boiling water, which bubbles over from the heat—to

“Woe to those who suppose what is evil to be good and what is good, evil! They put darkness for light and light for darkness;they make bitterness sweet and the sweet bitter. “Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own view! Woe to those who are valiant at

“Who has believed our revelation? On whose account has the arm of the Lord been revealed? “Like a sapling he grew up in his presence, a stalk out of arid ground. He had no distinguished appearance, that we should notice him; he had no [pleasing] aspect, that we should find him attractive. He was despised

“Hear me, you followers of righteousness, seekers of the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry out of which you were hewn; look to Abraham your father, to Sarah who bore you. He was but one when I called him, but I blessed him by making him many.” (Isaiah

“Hear the word of Jehovah, O leaders of Sodom; give heed to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!” (Isaiah 1:10) “It is the will of Jehovah that, because of his righteousness, they magnify the law and become illustrious.” (Isaiah 42:21) “But they have no desire to walk in his ways or obey

Who do we suppose are the end-time people of the Lord of whom he says, “I was available to those who did not inquire of me; I was accessible to those who did not seek me. I said, Here am I; I am here, to a people that did not invoke my name” (Isaiah 65:1)?

Do we sometimes—maybe even often—feel that our burdens are too great to bear? That there is no release from suffering in all its forms: stress, anxiety, sickness, weakness, temptations, pain, misperceptions, disabilities, affronts, evil speaking, persecution, poverty, etc.? Lest we lose our perspective, let’s remember that we consented to bear these very burdens before we

“The people walking in darkness have seen a bright light; on the inhabitants of the land of the shadow of death has the light dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy; they rejoice at your presence as men rejoice at harvest time, or as men are joyous when they divide spoil.” (Isaiah