Emphasis Preaching Journal
The Life of Faith
Commentary
The theme of the lessons for this Sunday is the life of faith.
Isaiah 1:1, 10-20
The First Lesson is taken from a prophetic book which is really a combination of two or three distinct strands. Only the first 39 chapters (from which this text is drawn) can be assigned to the historical prophet Isaiah who proclaimed his message to Jerusalem and the southern kingdom of Judah from 742 BC to 701 BC, the period during which the northern kingdom had been annexed by the Assyrian Empire.
Isaiah 1:1, 10-20
The First Lesson is taken from a prophetic book which is really a combination of two or three distinct strands. Only the first 39 chapters (from which this text is drawn) can be assigned to the historical prophet Isaiah who proclaimed his message to Jerusalem and the southern kingdom of Judah from 742 BC to 701 BC, the period during which the northern kingdom had been annexed by the Assyrian Empire.