"Though Isaiah
expects the nation
as a whole
to reject his message
and go down in ruin
he looks for the emergence
of a faithful few
through whom
renewal will come
when the crisis is past.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
"Out of Jerusalem
will go forth a remnant,
and out of Mount Zion
a band of survivors",
"who will lean
upon the Lord
...in truth"
(37:32, 1:9, 26, 6:13: 7:3 10:20-22: 11:16 28:5).
"Because of the cleansing,
renewing action of God,
the original warning
that only a remnant
will turn to the Lord
becomes a promise that
a remnant will turn."
"Isaiah finds the nucleus of this redemptive fellowship in the little band of his own disciples to whom he commits "the teaching and the testimony".
In this committed group,
empowered by God,
lies his hope for the future."
(Resonates...
Big time)
"Again and again in history
the church has been such a remnant."
"When it has failed,
becoming too much like the world around it,
repeatedly it has been itself renewed
by a faithful remnant within."
(Sunday, March 1, 2026
"JTB
AND CHRIST
called out the
religious establishment
of the day.
And so will we.
So I reiterate:
"If I am offending you?
More so?
Than a church
that doesn't denounce
the evil right
in front of it
????????????
“Silence in the face of evil
is itself evil:
God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.”
―
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Then you might just wanna
reexamine some things,..)
"Today the church is called to be God's agent in the renewal of men and the rebirth and transformation of society."
(Written in the fifties.)
"Does it instead too largely reflect
the pride, the fears, and the ethical standards
of the world at large?
Then its chief hope for rebirth,
humanly speaking,
is through the influence
of little cells of faithful,
Spirit-filled men and women."
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