This series of Advent sermon studies will let the prophet Isaiah speak. Seven centuries before the birth of Christ, Isaiah pictured the coming Messiah for his hearers and readers. The three Isaiah texts chosen for this ...

The 20th century saw astonishing church growth, both in the membership booms of the 50s and 60s and the construction of church buildings. By the end of the century, the trends of growth sharply reversed. In the face of ...