“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” (Isaiah 53:4, KJV) Something dawned on me during the worship service on Sunday. As many know, I have been dealing with bladder cancer for somewhat short of a year now. This has included threeContinue reading “Patience in Suffering”
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Enough Is Enough
“For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.” (Isaiah 42:14, ESV) When I was a boy, I remember watching the cartoons in the morning. One of the cartoons we watched was PopeyeContinue reading “Enough Is Enough”
Waiting On God
“For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”” (Isaiah 18:4, ESV) Here Isaiah gives an oracle concerning Cush. Cush is the area that broadly refers to the countries of the Upper Nile, south ofContinue reading “Waiting On God”
Renewing the Heart 