Date: 05/19/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Worshipful Life
Scripture: Isaiah 66:1-2
Description: This final chapter in Isaiah captures the only suitable response to the message of the book: Worship. And worship that pleases God hinges on the heart posture of the worshiper. God wants worshipers who come desperate and empty handed, who tremble at his word.
Date: 05/12/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: While You Wait
Scripture: Isaiah 61:10-62:7
Description: Isaiah is full of sweeping promises from God about his plans to redeem his people and remake the world. Many of these promises haven’t been fulfilled yet, so we wait. This text shows us how to wait in faith: we testify to what’s coming and we pray until it gets here.
Date: 05/05/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What God Wants From Us
Scripture: Isaiah 58:1-12
Description: Genuine trust in God and his promises produces a different way of life. But God isn’t interested in any good works we might offer as a kind of bargaining chip to get what we want from him. God is pleased by good works done for others as an overflow of our joyful security in him.
Date: 04/28/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Trust In God
Scripture: Isaiah 36:1-37:38
Description: Isaiah’s beautiful descriptions of God’s plan to redeem sinners are only good news for us if we know that they’re promises to us, and if we know how we’re supposed to respond to his word. This story of King Hezekiah in crisis, one of Isaiah’s only stories, is meant to show us what it looks like to claim God’s promises. It looks like a trust that’s rooted in despair, centered on God and his character, and motivated by God’s glory.
Date: 04/21/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: New Creation
Scripture: Isaiah 65:17-25
Description: God’s plan to redeem extends as far as the brokenness of the world. In the new heavens and the new earth, there will be gladness and no sorrow; life and no death; fruitfulness and no futility; peace and no hostility.
Date: 04/14/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Quantity and Quality of God's Redemption
Scripture: Isaiah 55:1-5
Description: Because of the Servant’s work, God offers the only thing that can truly satisfy us—himself. And he offers himself to all who see their need for him, everyone from everywhere.
Date: 04/07/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Gracious Redefinition
Scripture: Isaiah 54:1-10
Description: This chapter unpacks the beautiful reality that’s possible because the Servant has suffered for our sins. God’s grace can reframe your past, and God’s grace can perfectly secure your future.
Date: 03/31/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Servant Shall Be Exalted
Scripture: Isaiah 53:10-12
Description: The resurrection proves Jesus’s death fully accounted for sin and opened up a new world of hope.
Date: 03/24/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Royal Servant Suffers
Scripture: Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Description: God’s promised redeemer, both king and servant, triumphs through suffering. That’s the unexpected message of this famous passage, which explains for us both why he had to suffer and why his suffering is such good news for us. His suffering is substitutionary, voluntary, and obedient.
Date: 03/17/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Servant
Scripture: Isaiah 42:1-4
Description: To his emphasis on the coming King, Isaiah adds an unexpected description of the one who will come to save God’s people and bring justice to the nations. The conquering King is also the Servant; he is humble, gentle, and longsuffering.
Date: 03/10/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Perfect And Permanent King
Scripture: Isaiah 9:1-7
Description: Isaiah offers some of the Bible’s most beautiful descriptions of God’s plan to save sinners and heal the brokenness of the world. According to Isaiah 9, those plans center on the coming of a perfect and permanent King.
Date: 03/03/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: A Culture Of Misplaced Trust
Scripture: Isaiah 59:1-16
Description: This passage is a clear and merciless indictment of what happens to the cultures we create when we refuse to trust God to make us secure. Like Israel in Isaiah’s day, we turn each other into threats to be attacked, competitors to be deceived, and resources to be exploited. But this passage also points the way to healing. Honest confession of our own brokenness helps us empathize with the weakness of others, and confidence in God’s saving power frees us to give ourselves to others.
Date: 02/24/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Who's Carrying Whom?
Scripture: Isaiah 46:1-13
Description: Using an image of unmistakeable power, Isaiah shows that idols may draw you in with the promise of control, but in the end you’re left to carry their crushing weight. By contrast, the Holy One of Israel demands submissive trust in a God you can’t control, but he is powerful, wise, and loving enough to carry you.
Date: 02/17/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Uselessness of Idolatry
Scripture: Isaiah 44:9-23
Description: Isaiah presents idolatry, worshipping and trusting what isn’t God, as one of Israel’s most consistent and most significant problems. And though the symptoms have changed from culture to culture, idolatry is a heart disease we all carry. This chapter helps us understand what idolatry is, why it’s useless, how we’re guilty of it, and how we can be saved from it.
Date: 02/10/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Whom Will You Trust?
Scripture: Isaiah 7:1-17
Description: The story of Ahaz illustrates Isaiah’s perspective on what’s wrong with Israel and with us. Then and now, everything rides on a single question: whom will you trust?
Date: 02/03/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: True Love
Scripture: Isaiah 40:1-8
Description: The Bible claims that God is love, but in trying to understand what that means we’ve got to be careful to avoid imposing our confused views of what love is onto God. The fact is that God’s love isn’t like any love in our experience, which is to say it’s holy love. In light of Isaiah 40, God’s holy love is preemptive, pardoning, and permanent.
Date: 01/27/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: "Holy in Righteousness"
Scripture: Isaiah 5:8-25
Description: One of the ways in which God is holy, in which he is not like us, is his perfect moral righteousness. We redefine what’s right and justify doing wrong; God is perfectly committed to what’s right and unfailingly judges what’s wrong. This makes God’s holy perfection a severe threat. But his holy perfection also comes to us as a promise: God offers us Jesus’s record of perfect righteousness, and by his Spirit we come to love what’s right and hate what’s wrong as God does.
Date: 01/20/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: No Comparison
Scripture: Isaiah 40:12-31
Description: At the heart of Isaiah’s portrait of God is God’s holy transcendence—the fact that God is beyond us and anything we experience in this world, that he’s not limited by the powers of this world or our ability to understand him. This aspect of what God is like is unavoidably abstract and difficult to connect with, much less enjoy. And that’s why Isaiah 40 is in the Bible, to help us see and enjoy God’s holy transcendence more fully.
Date: 01/13/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Holy One of Israel
Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-7
Description: “Holy” is Isaiah’s favorite description of God, the one that stands behind everything else he says about him. But what does that mean, and how can we understand and love that God is holy?
Date: 01/06/13
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing The Book Of Isaiah: The Gospel According To Isaiah
Scripture: Isaiah 1:1-2:5
Description: Using Isaiah 1 as an introduction to our new series, this sermon aims to clarify the four questions Isaiah helps us answer: Who is God? Who are we? What has God promised us? And how should we respond to his Word?
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