Isaiah 7

Can we sense the Holy Spirit’s presence as God’s face shining upon us?

Preachers who value their pulpit would be wise to avoid Isaiah 9 this Christmas Eve.

What do these words from Isaiah ben Amoz mean for us?

My first instinct is to meditate on Isaiah 9 in light of its historical situation, which is bound up with the geopolitics of the late 8^th century BCE.

My extended family once had so many males named Frederick that the women in the family assigned each of us a number so the tribe could distinguish between us at family reunions. I became Fred IV. A casual observer might have thought that we considered ourselves royalty, or perhaps a line of renegade popes.