Dordt Chapel

Isaiah 46 gives us a striking contrast: Babylon's idols have to be loaded onto weary animals and carried away, but the living God tells His people, "I have made you, and I will carry you." This message explores how the things we look to for identity, security, and significance can become burdens we were never meant to bear. The good news is that God caries His people and, in Jesus Christ, bears what would otherwise crush us.

Isaiah describes God’s people as servants who have become blind through idolatry. But into their failure God says, “Behold my servant.” This message shows Isaiah’s portrait of the true Servant who establishes justice, open blind eyes, and refuses to “break a bruised reed.” The good news for struggling servants is that Jesus does not crush us in our weakness: He restores us and teaches us to serve in His strength.

Isaiah 40 speaks into our weariness with a reminder that God has not forgotten us. This message explores the God who never grows weary and faithfully carries His people, inviting us to find renewed strength and hope in Jesus Christ, who welcomes all who are weary and burdened to find rest.

Isaiah 40 speaks into the aftermath of devastation with a surprising first word: comfort. God's people have lived through judgement, exile, and loss, but God has not abandoned them. He comes to them, speaks to their hearts, and announces good news: "Behold your God." This message explores the God who is strong enough to save and gentle enough to Carry His people, a promise Christians see fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the mighty King and gentle Shepherd who has come near.

“In whom do you trust?” In Isaiah 36-37, Judah faces a moment of crisis as the Assyrian empire surrounds Jerusalem and asks that decisive question. Hezekiah responds by bringing the threat before the Lord and looking again to the God who is enthroned above every earthly king. This message explores what it means to place the weight of our lives on God when pressure comes, and how Jesus Christ is the faithful King in whom our trust ultimately rests.

In Isaiah 35, the wilderness blooms, weak hands are strengthened, fearful hearts are encouraged, and a highway called the Way of Holiness leads God's redeemed people home. This chapel message explores Isaiah's vision of God's complete and beautiful redemption and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, who comes to us in the wilderness and calls us to walk in His Way with joy and hope until all things are made new.

Will our story end in a funeral or a feast? Isaiah looks directly at death, the shadow hanging over every person and every civilization, and announces something almost unimaginable. God will swallow up death forever, wipe away every tear, and gather the nations to a feast. In this sermon from Isaiah 25, we consider what it means to live with hope, practice joy, and wait for the day when we can finally say, “Behold, this is our God”.  

When the future feels uncertain, we are tempted either to despair or to grasp for control. Isaiah gives us another way: stand firm in faith and trust the God who brings new life from dead stumps. Because Jesus Christ lives and holds the future, we can work with patience, courage, and hope without having to manufacture the future ourselves. ,

Isaiah sees the Lord high and lifted up and comes completely undone. But the fire he expects to consume him instead cleanses him, and grace sets him free to say, “Here am I, send me.” The Throne reminds us that we don’t have to hold the world together: the throne is already occupied, and the Holy One who sits on it can be trusted.

We often imagine life as a mountain to climb—a place to prove ourselves and build an identity. Isaiah invites us instead to behold the mountain of the Lord, where human pride is bought low and God’s greatness fills the horizon. In Jesus Christ, we discover the freedom of being humbled without being diminished and released from the burden of making ourselves great.