by Eric Spivey | Dec 6, 2020 | Advent 2020
I mentioned this last week but it’s worth repeating. Every year at Christmas it can be a little tough to study the Christmas story passages, not because they aren’t important to us but because they’re so familiar to us. So I would encourage you and...
by Eric Spivey | Nov 29, 2020 | Advent 2020
This week begins Advent, the month-long season that leads up to Christmas. Here I’ll remind us of what we encounter every year with Christmas—because these stories are familiar to us, they can often be hard to study. We can struggle to turn new eyes on a text...
by Eric Spivey | Nov 22, 2020 | Kingdom of Justice
Passage Intro This week is an off-week between series; we just wrapped up Kingdom of Justice, our Isaiah series, and next week is the start of Advent. This week at Vintage Downtown we’ll turn to Mark 10 and the healing of blind Bartimaeus. As we’ll see,...
by Eric Spivey | Nov 15, 2020 | Kingdom of Justice
Passage Intro Throughout the book Isaiah points to a final conclusion that roots all hope in the here and now, that conclusion being the perfect Kingdom ruled by the perfect King. This week we’ll finish up our series looking at a familiar passage for many...
by Eric Spivey | Nov 5, 2020 | Kingdom of Justice
Passage Intro This chapter is a pretty pivotal one in Isaiah for two reasons; first, it looks back on the first 55 chapters in a quick summary (v.1) before transitioning to the promise of the coming Kingdom in chapters 56-66. At this point, Israelites who had heard...
