Aug 14, 2022 | Sermon Archive
ISAIAH 5:1-7 I will sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it and hewed out a wine vat in...
Aug 7, 2022 | Sermon Archive
Isaiah 1: 1, 10-20 We’ve been spending the summer with the prophets, and this morning, we hear from Isaiah: the most well-known, frequently quoted, complex of the prophetic books partly because it may well have been written before, during, and after the exile,...
Jul 31, 2022 | Sermon Archive
MICAH 6:1-8 This summer, we’ve been looking at the prophets, and today we return to the prophet Micah. Micah is known as a minor prophet because the book is small compared to the large books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel – but Micah’s message is anything but...
Jul 24, 2022 | Sermon Archive
MICAH 4:1-5 In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills. Peoples shall stream to it, and many nations shall come and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,...
Jul 17, 2022 | Sermon Archive
AMOS 8:1-12 The prophets bear a lot of bad news. The caricature a prophet is a gadfly at best, a curmudgeon on a good day, and at worst fiery preacher of gloom and doom. Chapter eight begins with the image of summer fruit. What can be more life-giving than this: a...
Jul 10, 2022 | Sermon Archive
Amos 7:1-10 The book of Amos is one of the minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. They are called the minor prophets because the books by these prophets are very short, unlike Isaiah or Jeremiah. There are 12 minor prophets, written between the 8th and 4th...