Open your Bible, if you will, to Isaiah chapter 53. For those of you who are with us this weekend because of the special graduations and maybe Mother's Day, I apologize for the fact that you are going to be jumping in in the middle of this journey. And in some ways this is a series of sermons that link together very tightly and you're going to be missing a whole lot of the earlier links, but we hope that it will still be an encouragement to you. I always feel like I need to do a little bit to sort of get you up to speed. . . .
