Get the past, the present and the future all in focus, the prophet is saying. Think back to Abraham and Sarah; listen now to the word of comfort, as in the poem's beginning in chapter 40; look ahead to the promise of new creation! Isaiah 51:3 assures the people that the God of Abraham will bring about the new Eden, the great new creation towards which the promise of the land was an early signpost. Comfort, then, comes from holding on with one hand to the great story that began with Abraham, and from holding firmly with the other hand to the promised rescue and redemption of all creation. In turn, one finds oneself held firmly, literally 'comforted' (made strong by the help of another), with the strong arm of YHWH himself. To do this is to stand in the place of faith and hope.
--Into The Heart of Isaiah
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Our Anxious World Needs Isaiah
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Justification is umbilically related to justice: God puts people right with himself so that they may be part of, and be recruited for roles within, his ongoing purpose of putting the world right. That remains our vocation to this day.
-Into the Heart of Isaiah
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Wycliffe Oxford Forum: Christian Faith and National Priorities
Wycliffe Oxford Forum with N. T. Wright
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Friday, Nov. 6-Saturday, Nov. 7
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Latest Ask N.T. Wright Anything Episode
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-Are Christians Supposed to Build God's Kingdom?
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The gospel is not meant to make people odd or less than fully human; it is meant to renew them in their genuine, image-bearing humanness.
-Paul and the Faithfulness of God
I’d like to introduce you to my next book, Into the Heart of Isaiah. In this book I ask: What does Isaiah have to do with Jesus, Paul, the resurrection, and the first century Christians? Quite a lot, it turns out. I encourage you to pre-order here:
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The aim of the Christian life in the present time—the goal you are meant to be aiming at once you have come to faith, the goal which is within reach even in the present life, anticipating the final life to come—is the life of fully formed, fully flourishing Christian character.
-After You Believe / Virtue Reborn