Isaiah 3:16-26
Father,
we are children who have been given much. You have blessed us with an abundance of all things: food to fill our stomachs, every kind of entertainment to distract and occupy our minds, and every opportunity to adorn our bodies with things
stuff
the trappings of our culture that we think make us beautiful.
Father,
you teach us that [...]
Link of the Day: Societal Sins
Scott, over at Grace is Unfair, looks at Amos and Isaiah and comes to some troubling conclusions about personal and societal sins.
In Amos, God condemns oppression of the poor and sexual sin in the same breath. And in Isaiah, God shows that He detests both when people amass too much land at the expense of the [...]
Justice
One of the themes in my Sunday school class is justice. We have looked at God’s desire for material justice1 in the world. We have looked at such verses as Isaiah 61:8, Zech 7:8-10, and James 1:27; all of which make it crystal clear that one of our functions in this world is [...]