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Isaiah 66:1-6: Tremble at the LORD’s Word
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD confronts His people with the reality that He is the Creator of all things and of the new heavens and new earth. Rather than seeing their worship as something that they must do for Him (for He needs nothing from them), they must come before Him in humility, contrition, and trembling at H...
Isaiah 65:17-25: The New Heavens and New Earth
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsUsing the same language as He did in Genesis 1, the LORD speaks about His creation of the new heavens and the new earth, which will bring great joy to His people. Here, He will give to them eternal life and fruitful labor, and no enemies will harm them. He will dwell with them to hear their praye...
LSB 487: Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsIn this beautiful hymn written especially for the 2nd Sunday of Easter, John of Damascus proclaims that the rescue that God gave to Israel through the Exodus has been fulfilled in the rescue God has given to us through the resurrection of Jesus. The winter of sin and death has come to an end; new...
Isaiah 65:1-16: The LORD Says to You, “Here I Am!”
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD responds to His people’s prayer by reminding them that He was ready for them to seek and find Him in the ways that He had chosen to reveal Himself to them. Even as He spread His hands out to them, they engaged in all kinds of idolatrous practices that made them smoke in His nostrils. To ...
Isaiah 63:15-64:12: Rend the Heavens and Come Down
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 22, 2024 14:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsIsaiah leads the people of Israel in prayer, lament, and confession before the LORD. They call upon the LORD as their Father, asking Him to see them as His children, even though they have strayed. They acknowledge that He has sent them into exile and made them as those who are not called upon His...
Sharathon 2024: The Shepherd Seeks and Saves
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsIn Matthew 18 and Luke 15, Jesus speaks a parable about a man who owns one hundred sheep, and one becomes lost. In love for that one sheep, the shepherd seeks it out and brings it back to the flock with great joy. By this parable, Jesus teaches us the great love that He has for us sinners. He cal...
Sharathon 2024: Psalm 100: Raise the King’s Victory Shout
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsPsalm 100 is a psalm for giving thanks for the ongoing reign of the LORD. Because He is the true King, His people join with all creation in the song of His victory. His people are called into His presence with gladness and singing, both in the Divine Service and in their daily vocations. We know ...
LSB 480: He’s Risen, He’s Risen
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 17, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsC.F.W. Walther’s marvelous Easter hymn invites all people to join in the praises of Christ Jesus the Lord. By His resurrection, the Word of God made flesh has freed us from the prison of sin, death, and the devil. Though the evil one and all his evil host cheered to see Jesus dead and buried, the...
Isaiah 63:1-14: Why Are the LORD’s Garments Red?
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 16, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe prophet sees a Mighty Warrior coming; He identifies Himself as the LORD. The prophet has questions concerning the Warrior’s stained garments; the LORD says that they are red from the blood of His enemies, whom He has conquered on the day of His vengeance for the year of His favor. Upon seeing...
Isaiah 62:1-12: The LORD Gives New Names
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 15, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD promises to speak for the sake of His beloved people to bring them His righteousness and salvation. Nations will see this light and come to the people of God, who are His crowning jewel. Though their sin and idolatry had left them forsaken and desolate, the LORD bestows the names “My Del...
Isaiah 61:1-11: The LORD’s Anointed Servant Brings Joy
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe Servant of the LORD speaks as the One anointed by the Spirit. He comes to preach good news, to comfort, and to give God’s good gifts. Through the work of the LORD’s Servant, His people are established securely in righteousness. No longer will they be found in shame, but they will serve the LO...
Isaiah 60:1-22: Arise, Shine, for Your Light Has Come
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 11, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsBecause the LORD has caused His glory to come to His people, they rise and shine so that nations are drawn to worship the LORD. All the wealth of the world is put into the service of the LORD as He calls sinners to His salvation because He loves people as His treasured possession. The safety of t...
LSB 467: Awake, My Heart, with Gladness
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsPaul Gerhardt’s Easter hymn fits perfectly as the first words sung by Christians gathered for an Easter sunrise service. The reality of the empty tomb on Easter banishes sadness and fills us with gladness. Though the foe thought he had won the victory when Jesus lay dead and buried, in fact, the ...
Isaiah 59:1-21: Unrighteous Sinners Need the Righteous Savior
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 09, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD tells His people with vivid imagery that they have separated themselves from Him. He speaks of their defilement in their words and actions. He condemns their deceitful plots and plans. In response, the people confess their rebellion, their idolatry, and their complete lack of justice and...
Isaiah 58:1-14: The LORD’s Chosen Fast
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 08, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe people of Israel were guilty of hypocritical worship. Although they went through the motions of fasting and praying, they did so without faith in the LORD’s Word. When they complained to Him that He wasn’t listening, the LORD called them to task for abstaining from food only to quarrel with e...
Isaiah 57:1-21: Contrition Is Better than Idolatry
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 05, 2024 14:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsNo one on earth may regard the LORD’s righteous one, but the LORD sees and knows. He will not fail to judge the idolatry of His people, particularly among the leaders. Those who follow idolatry only fall into all kinds of perversion and wickedness. Although they look to their idols for help, thei...
Isaiah 56:1-12: A House of Prayer for All Peoples
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 04, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsBecause of the work of the Servant of the LORD for His people, they are called into a life according to His justice and righteousness. Those who worship Him from a true heart and love His Word will be brought to the LORD’s holy mountain—even eunuchs and foreigners. This is a part of the LORD’s mi...
LSB 457: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 03, 2024 14:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis joyous Easter hymn resounds with Alleluias at what our Lord Jesus has done in His resurrection. His victory over death and the grave is made ours by His grace. His suffering on the cross has redeemed us from all that we lost under sin. His sufferings, death, and resurrection have won our sal...
Isaiah 55:1-13: Buy Without Money
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 02, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD calls all people to come and receive His great salvation, won by the Suffering Servant. The gifts of His Word come without cost to those who hear it, and those gifts bring greater blessings than any earthly food or money. Now is the time for people to seek the LORD and forsake their own ...
Isaiah 54:1-17: The Heritage of the Servants of the LORD
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - April 01, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsBecause of the work of the Suffering Servant, the LORD’s people sing for joy. Though His people were as a barren woman in the exile, the LORD has increased her children beyond what the current borders can hold. He has done this as a faithful husband to His people, who has called His bride back to...
Isaiah 52:13-53:12: With His Stripes We Are Healed
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 29, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD calls His people to behold His Servant high and lifted up on the cross in divine glory. Although His appearance did not attract us to Him, His suffering has sprinkled us with His cleansing blood so that we can truly see the only God. Men despised and rejected Jesus and hid their faces fr...
Isaiah 52:1-12: Beautiful Feet Bring Good News
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 28, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsOnce more, the LORD calls His people to wake up. He calls them out of their distress and despair, for He is redeeming them out of their captivity according to His powerful Word. The messenger who proclaims this good news to God’s people runs to Zion on his beautiful feet so that they will know th...
LSB 438: A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 27, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsPaul Gerhardt’s marvelous hymn text is fitting both for Lent and Holy Week. We sing of Jesus as the Lamb of God who goes willingly into sacrifice to bear our sin and be our Savior. He gives His spotless life in place of our sinful lives gladly, treating us as His friends. Jesus does this as the t...
Isaiah 51:1-23: The Arm of the LORD Wakes His People
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 26, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD calls His people to look to the rock from which they were hewn, recalling how the LORD their Rock brought a great nation from the dead rock Abraham. Therefore, Israel must listen to the LORD’s Word, as His righteousness and salvation come near to them. He works this salvation through His...
Isaiah 50:4-11: The Obedient Suffering Servant
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 25, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD’s Servant speaks again; He does so as One whose tongue and ear have been taught by the LORD. As the Servant speaks faithfully, His Word sustains those who are weary. As the Servant remains faithful to the LORD, He begins to suffer physical pain and public shame. Because He knows that the...
Isaiah 49:14-50:3: The LORD Will Not Forget or Forsake
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 22, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsWhen the LORD’s people claim that He has forgotten them, He proclaims that His memory of them is even greater than that of a mother for her child. He has even engraved them on the palms of His hands. He promises to enlarge the people of Israel so that they will need more room for everyone; this i...
Isaiah 49:1-13: The LORD’s Servant to Israel and the Nations
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 21, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe Servant of the LORD speaks to the ends of the earth, for He is the One set apart by the LORD from the womb to speak His Word faithfully. Even as He laments in the midst of the suffering He endures, the Servant trusts the LORD to vindicate Him. The LORD commissions His servant not only to brin...
LSB 442: All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 20, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThis glorious Palm Sunday hymn places us in the procession of palms to sing praises to Jesus, who entered into Jerusalem as the King of Israel. As we worship Him on earth, we join in the worship of the angels in heaven and the song of all creation that is offered to Christ as the Redeemer of all....
Isaiah 48:1-22: Go Out From Babylon, O Israel!
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 19, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsThe LORD again calls His people to listen. Although Israel has not lived up to her name, the LORD has lived up to His; He is faithful to His promises. No idols can do what He has done. Although His people have not heard in the past, He speaks to them again so that they will listen. The LORD promi...
Isaiah 47:1-15: Arrogant Babylon Will Be Brought Low
Sharper Iron from KFUO Radio - March 18, 2024 14:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsBabylon will receive the same judgment as its idols; Babylon will be brought low. Their earthly glory will be turned to shame at the hand of the LORD, who is the Redeemer of His people Israel. Though the LORD had made use of Babylon to carry out His righteous anger against His people, Babylon wen...
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