Hebrew terms for God appear across the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah brings them all together. If you were a child of Christian parents in the 1980s or 1990s, there is a decent chance that at some ...

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Isaiah also has the distinction of being the Old Testament book that Jesus quoted from second most frequently during his earthly ministry. (The Book of Psalms was first.) But please don’t ask what New ...

We are thinking about Jesus’ temptations as they are recorded for us in the fourth chapter of Luke’s Gospel. Last week we began to consider some preliminary thoughts on Jesus’ temptation. Jesus came ...