Download Audio Download Text “The Life of Faith in a Dark World” Isaiah 50:4-11 August 25, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn Isaiah chapter 50 is in the midst of what scholars refer to as the Book of the Servant, that section of Isaiah that contains the four servant songs; prophesies of […]
Download Audio Download Text “Come to the Waters” Isaiah 55:1-13 August 25, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn We are these Lord’s Day mornings considering representative texts from the book of Isaiah, Israel’s greatest prophet. This morning we have a particularly well-known passage, both beautiful and exceedingly rich in both theological and […]
Download Audio Download Text “Turn to Me” Isaiah 45:18-25 August 18, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn We are reading tonight vv. 18-25, but it is easy to see that these verses belong to a larger unit. The chapter begins with the prophecy of Cyrus the Persian’s rise to power, the man […]
Download Audio Download Text “The Prophet’s Perspective” Isaiah 11:1-11 August 18, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn I said last time that I wanted to preach my last sermons this summer from Isaiah, a book that I have preached from many times but never preached through. As a result, there are wonderful […]
Download Audio Download Text “The Call of Isaiah” Isaiah 6:1-13 June 30, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn As I mentioned this morning, in my preaching this summer I intend to take under consideration some particularly important texts from the prophecy of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets of Israel, texts that, each […]
Download Audio Download Text “Forgiveness” Isaiah 1:1-20 June 30, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn Isaiah and Jeremiah are the two books of the Bible I never preached through paragraph by paragraph. I did preach through Ezekiel in that way, but both Isaiah and Jeremiah are still longer books, and Isaiah considerably […]
Download Audio Download Text “What Did the Cross Achieve?” Isaiah 52:13-53:12 April 7, 2019 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn I do not intend to provide an exposition of Isaiah 53 this evening. Rather, in this Lenten season, I want to use this text as a springboard for a consideration of the Lord’s suffering […]