Daily Thoughts From God's Word

Jeremiah describes the idolatrous nation:  “You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me?  declares the Lord”...

“The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord...

Isaiah:  “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind...

The Bible has a lot to say about worship and fasting, both true and false.  The prophet warns Israel:  “Is such the fast that I choose, a...

In his “Deathless Sermon” of 1792, the Baptist preacher, William Carey, preached from the text of Isaiah 54:2-3:  “Enlarge the place of...

The Lord says to his people, “Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah,...

What wonderful and encouraging words Isaiah speaks to the people!  May I just quote the prophet, today?  I mean, I don’t know how to type...

So much judgment against the people and rightly so!  But to those who will go into exile, wondering if their God had forgotten them, the...

I know these historical chapters pretty well having studied them closely during my seminary days.  I hope this does not come across in...

What a contrast!  The judgment of the nations vs. the redemption of Israel.  Of the idolatrous nations that hated and sought to destroy...

These chapters of Isaiah are a mix of warning, judgment, and hope.  The prophet cries out against the corrupt rulers, priests, prophets,...

Chapters 26 and 27 both begin, “In that day.”  The prophet is speaking to a people who have been oppressed and who have suffered greatly...

Isaiah’s announcements of judgment continue:  against Jerusalem and against Tyre.  And so, he has named nation after nation but those...

Beginning in chapter 13, Isaiah calls out nation after nation, beginning with Babylon, for their treacheries and wrongdoings.  In...

“The oracle concerning Babylon” (13:1).  The people of God, as is so in every generation, faced so many enemies, among them Babylon.  The...