Salting Our Worship! “Season all your grain offerings with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings; add salt to all your offerings” (Leviticus 2:13, NIV). Admittedly, the book of Leviticus isn’t the most entrancing read, but I’m having a field day in it! Recently, I came …

My Resolution for 2022 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is your true and proper worship.” Romans 12:1. Admittedly, I’m not into New Year resolutions. But the one thought that comes to mind at …

Dear ISI Family, By now, colleagues and friends of ISI are familiar with the first few verses in Isaiah 54 and their pertinence to where we are today as a ministry. Over the past couple of years and at the height of the pandemic, God saw fit to deposit in us several key promises from …

Remember this old Randy Stonehill song from the early 80s, complete with accompanying calypso beats and all? Shut de door, keep out de devil Shut de door, keep the devil in the night Shut de door, keep out de devil Light the candle, everything’s all right Lately, the matter of doors and the keys that ...

I don’t like Tupperware! You know…those plastic food storage containers…. If you put tomato soup in one of them, they will be stained red for good, and eventually you end up needing to throw them away. They just can’t be cleaned out. Ezekiel 24:1-14 (NLT) compares the sins of Jerusalem to a cooking pot that …

Celebrations Birthday Celebrations. Anniversary Celebrations. Graduation Celebrations. Life Celebrations. Why pause to celebrate? We discussed this topic a few weeks ago during one of our regional Zoom gatherings. Celebration/Arts is one of the seven spheres we have been batting around, pondering what it really looks like to model impact for our students looking to the …