The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14b   Life is complicated, and the older I get, the more alarmed I become concerning the state of my country and the world. . . And that is why we read so much of Isaiah this time of year. In Isaiah’s day, the people of Israel wrestled with the same things we do. They wrestled with ambitious leaders whose foreign policy was questionable and who hawked their own ideas of economic and......

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