Commentary on Isaiah 35:1-10
When the wilderness blooms, when the desert is fertile, it’s as if nature itself sings [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Isaiah 7:10-16
As preachers, you may be feeling a bit of sermon burnout at this point in [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 63:7-9
“It was no messenger or angel but his presence that saved them.” Isaiah seeks to [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:7-14
These verses speak to a community of migrants and refugees. [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 60:1-6
Every prophetic oracle is spoken within a historical context.1 I believe that, as preachers, we [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 42:1-9
Louis Stulman and Hyun Chul Paul Kim describe prophetic literature as “meaning-making literature for communities [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 49:1-7
Soren Kierkegaard famously has said: “The door to happiness opens outward.”1 Something of this life [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 9:1-4
These first few verses of Isaiah 9 contrast sharply the previous states of subjection with [...]
Commentary on Micah 6:1-8
The historical situation of this text is not entirely clear.1 A setting during the reign [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 58:1-9a [9b-12]
This final section of Isaiah, known as “Third Isaiah” (Isaiah [...]