Reading the OT book of Isaiah is a daunting prospect. It's one of the longest books of the Bible, it mentions names and places that we are not familiar with, and some bits are just odd. However it is well worth the effort. You can gauge how important it is by how many times it gets quoted in the New Testament.  Although it was written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus, we get an incredibly vivid picture of what Jesus would achieve on the cross (eg. Isaiah 53:5-6). Isaiah gives us a look at God's incredible plan to judge and to save. This is an amazing part of God’s word, and we should not neglect it. Is that enough reason?

Over the next 8 weeks we will be looking at the first half of Isaiah at church on Sundays, and the second half in our mid-week Growth Groups.