Prayer: Immanuel, you are with us. Amen
Reading: Isaiah 7: 10-16 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: On one hand, stores and radio stations have been all about Christmas since soon after Halloween. Meanwhile, Christmas is less than 10 days away and one has to read our text very closely to get hints of the story. There are just snippets - young woman with child...a son...Immanuel. Around those bits there are words of a sign...test...weary...land and two kings...dread...and another king. Certainly not Christmas as obvious as the decorations and songs everywhere you turn. Maybe all we need to notice is that one word - Immanuel. All we need to know is that one name - Immanuel. What do all those other words mean - woman...sign...child...weary...son...land...kings? That is a lot to figure out. Immanuel - which means God is with us. That is the word - the name - that matters most. -- Ruth Gates
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