Dave spoke from 1 Pet 2:9-10 about being God's chosen people. People, for all their flaws and imperfections, have wonderful capacities for love, beauty, joy and kindness, being made in God's image. To be alive is a wondrous thing, but humans constantly ask 'Who am I?'...

Is 40:28-31 contain some of the most encouraging verses in the whole BIble, connecting hope with faith: 'Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.’ (Is 40:31) When we stop trusting in our own strength and stop relying on our own ingenuity, we find that God...

Isaiah is a mini-Bible in itself; made up of 66 chapters, 39 focus on the sin of Israel and God's judgment and 27 of them, starting with Isaiah 40, focus on God's great rescue plan through the Suffering Servant, the Messiah. Isaiah 40 contains a whole plethora of...