For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating [Isaiah 65:17-18a]. Some years ago, in a Bible study that I was leading at the time, we decided to take a look at the prophet, Isaiah. Realizing that if we followed an “A to Z” approach, we’d be “in the book” forever, I suggested that we take eight or ten weeks to examine some of Isaiah’s “big” text passages. One such passage was Isaiah 65:17-25, the OT reading appointed for this upcoming Sunday [the Twenty-third Sunday…
"Dispatches to the Front" -- a collection of theological meditations by Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., M.Div.