by Justin Marple | May 29, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 32 prompts me to ask, “Are you happy with your spiritual growth?” I’m not. The Heidelberg Catechism asks, “But can those who are converted to God keep these commandments (the ten commandments) perfectly?” and answers “No,...
by Justin Marple | May 22, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 31 pronounces a woe upon those who were going down to Egypt to get help. All you have to do is reflect on the history of Israel to see that this was a foolish decision. The plagues themselves demonstrated the defeat of the idols of Egypt by the true and...
by Justin Marple | May 15, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 30 (click here to read or hear the whole passage, I only read selected verses for length) shows the people of Judah saying to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things,...
by Justin Marple | May 8, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 29 shows us how much the people of Judah had turned things upside down. When they tell their maker, “You did not make me,” it would be like us telling our mother, “You did not give birth to me, but I gave birth to you.” Isaiah mentions...
by Justin Marple | May 1, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 28 is a difficult passage to understand because of the distance we have from it politically and religiously. But the people of Israel and Judah did not understand it in a different way — they did not understand it with their hearts, they did not believe...
by Justin Marple | Apr 24, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Mark: Lent to Easter, SERMONS
The earliest manuscripts we have of Mark end with this passage of Mark 15:40-16:8. But this is no way to end the story: “The women went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were...
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