Why Don't You Send Somebody?
Sermons For Advent, Christmas, Epiphany
A newborn child is such a small and fragile thing. Can it have
the power to change anything?
In the eighth century B.C.E., Ahaz, King of Judah, faced the
armies of two kings advancing to attack Jerusalem, and a state of
mind bordering on panic seized the king and the people. Into that
climate of fear came the prophet Isaiah, who met Ahaz one day as
he was inspecting the water supply of Jerusalem in anticipation
of the siege of the city. Isaiah called upon Ahaz to have
unwavering faith in Yahweh, so that the kingdom would not fall.
