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Gordon Van Wylen

Gordon Van Wylen served as the Dean of the Engineering School at the University of Michigan, and was the President Emeritus of Hope College. Dr. Van Wylen died in 2020.
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A Model Response to God’s Call

Read: Isaiah 6:1-10 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the

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A Love-Song Parable

Read: Isaiah 5:1-8, 21-24 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? (v. 4) In this parable a woman of noble character

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Discerning God’s Judgment

Read: Isaiah 3:1-11 Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves. (v. 9, NIV) Isaiah provides important insights into a troubling but important issue: God’s judgment. It’s something that

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A Lesson on National Peril

Read: Isaiah 2:5-22 The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day, and the idols will totally disappear. (vv.

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God’s Purpose for the Nations

Read: Isaiah 2:1-5 Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. (v. 5) In this beautiful poem we have Isaiah’s vision of dramatic, world-embracing events

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A Transformed City

Read: Isaiah 1:21-28 Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them. (v. 23)

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Transforming Grace

Read: Isaiah 1:1-20 The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner’s manger, But Israel does not know, my people do not understand. (v. 3) In this reading we are

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Dramatic Change

Read: 2 Chronicles 29:1-30 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away

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