Emmanuel - God With Us - Isaiah 7:1-14: The Sign of Emmanuel

The first in our Christmas Series - Emmanuel: God With Us.  When is the last time you got into a panic? You might have forgotten a deadline or missed your bus, or ran late for an appointment. You might have been late to pick up the children from school – that happened to me this week. Yet, when panic strikes at a deeper level – at the level of what you could call spiritual panic – Christians have a decision to make. Trust God whose enduring promises we read and know and believe in and rally to – or simply, if quietly, refuse to trust God and set about, well, sorting myself out. Trust God or refuse to trust God. Again and again the Bible pleads with us to have faith not in our own plans, but in the sovereign Lord.