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Garrett Tyson
Contributing sermons since Nov 20, 2021
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God Gives Second Chances (Ezekiel 18:1-32)
Contributed on Jan 13, 2025
An academically rigorous, 1 week rabbit trail talking about generational punishments/curses, mostly following (and maybe slightly improving on) Margaret Odell's Ezekiel commentary.
Today, we have the privilege of working through a chapter of the Bible that I've been unsettled about, and wrestled with off and on, and changed my mind back and forth, for over 20 years. Ezekiel 18. If you're not familiar with the passage, that's fabulous. That's great. If you ...read more
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The Servant Who Hears God's Voice (Isaiah 50:4-11)
Contributed on Jan 13, 2025
Sermon's focus is on listening to God. The servant is part of the group of disciples who hear God's voice. The servant suffers, but is confident that he suffers innocently, and that God will vindicate him.
Our passage today is commonly called the third of the four servant songs in Isaiah 40-55. The other three, famously, are in Isaiah 42, 49, and 53. I've said before that over a century ago, a scholar named Bernard Duhm split off these four songs from the rest of Isaiah 40-55, and treated ...read more
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Feeling Abandoned By God? (Isaiah 49:14-50:3)
Contributed on Jan 3, 2025
Lady Zion feels abandoned by God. God comforts her by saying He will make her beautiful again, and give her children. God also says, she feels abandoned because she was-- but that's about to change.
A few weeks ago, in Isaiah 47, we read about the fall of Babylon, the capital city of the Babylonian empire. The city was described using female imagery-- as a delicate virgin daughter, as a queen. She was described as being proud, and boastful, and savage in her treatment of God's people. ...read more
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Life Is A Series Of Choices (Numbers 14:1-38)
Contributed on Jan 3, 2025
The fathers of Israel have to make a choice about if they will listen to the voices with faith, or the voices who fear. They make the wrong choice, and now they and their sons will miss God's best.
Last week, we read the story about how Moses, at God's command, sent 12 men into the promised land to explore it. Before Moses sent them, he specifically asked them to bring back a report about the people living there-- are they strong, or weak, are they few, or many? Are their cities ...read more
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God, The Good Shepherd, Will Bring You Home (Isaiah 49:7-14)
Contributed on Nov 7, 2024
God promises his exiled people He will bring them from shame to honor, from exile to home, from being prisoners to freedom.
The last few weeks, we've spent a fair bit of time studying, and circling around, Isaiah 49:1-6. These verses (I've argued) are the words of the exilic prophet, who feels like his ministry to Israel has been a waste. He's accomplished nothing. He's poured out his strength for ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Numbers
Contributed on Jan 3, 2025
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Isaiah 40-55
Contributed on Jan 24, 2024
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Matthew
Contributed on Nov 3, 2023
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Revelation
Contributed on May 11, 2023
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Titus
Contributed on Oct 20, 2022