For the New Year - continuing with Isaiah, the gospels, and the "servant songs"

Hi again everyone.  We had a great experience visiting with the participants in the FACETS hypothermia shelter at Holy Comforter last time (if you look closely at the photo you'll see Tyler & David working with some of the youth from Holy Comforter, helping to serve.  

1/20/15  Isaiah’s “light to the Gentiles” and Christian interpretation (celebration of Epiphany and the coming of the Wise Men)

2/3  Isaiah 42:  1^st “servant song” and shifting understandings of what it means to be “God’s people”

2/17:  Shrove Tuesday/ “Mardi Gras” – Social event TBA????

3/3  The “servant songs” in Isaiah 52-55– how NT writers understood these in telling the story of Jesus.  Isaiah. We’ll be working through these, and New Testament parallels, throughout the season of Lent

3/17:  Servant songs 

4/7  Isaiah 55 and God’s promises

4/21  The end of Isaiah, reflected in the book of Acts and in Revelation.  New understandings of who God wants to be for God’s people

In May and early June could shift focus to a bigger theme, e.g. what does it mean to be “God’s people?” looking at key passages in Old and New Testament – or we may find we have more to say about Isaiah. 

After a summer break,  for fall of 2015 I’m thinking maybe a New Testament focus again – maybe a thematic approach:  the parables?  The miracles?  Think about it. . .