Emphasis Preaching Journal
The Lord ... will give you...
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"The Lord ... will give you a sign," says Isaiah. "Look, the young woman is with child, and shall bear a son."
How perfectly ordinary! A young woman bears a son. It's happened millions of times in human history.
But this time is different. "A sign," writes Philip Yancey, "is not the same thing as proof; a sign is merely a marker for someone who is looking in the right direction." (The Jesus I Never Knew [Zondervan, 2002], p. 178)
How perfectly ordinary! A young woman bears a son. It's happened millions of times in human history.
But this time is different. "A sign," writes Philip Yancey, "is not the same thing as proof; a sign is merely a marker for someone who is looking in the right direction." (The Jesus I Never Knew [Zondervan, 2002], p. 178)
