Missions Focus: Please be praying for Zack, Michelle, and Rowan F. They are missionaries we support monthly who serve in a sensitive region in the Middle East. Please be praying for the season ahead as they anticipate being far from family.
Local: Pray for people in your local who struggle to see the value of being a part of the church or of being a follower of Jesus. Seek to be a redefiner.
Church: Pray for opportunity and provision in the Corner Church world. Pray for opportunity to be a part of God’s plan in this.

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There will not be Communal Prayer this Tuesday at 9am in the Corner Coffee North Loop. It will resume the following Tuesday, March 25. Join the Prayer Team by marking your connection card today.
Spring Connection Groups. Go to corner.church/groups to sign up to participate and/or indicate interest in any groups.
Today, Sunday, March 16, is our Corner Church Community Advisory Team voting. Each community elects two Partners to be on our church Advisory Team. This quick process will take place after the 10am service at all Corner Church Communities. All partners will be asked to vote.
Are you new or newer to the Corner Church community? You are invited to a dinner at the Woller home (Corner Church North Loop Pastor) this evening, Sunday, March 16, at 6pm. Hang with all the Corner Church pastors and connect with other newish people. 521 S 7th Street #112 MPLS. Please RSVP by texting Scott Woller at 612.801.9233 right now!
The Corner Church Annual Meeting is next Sunday, March 23 at 6pm at Corner Coffee North Loop. This is an opportunity to connect deeply with what has happened and will be happening at Corner Church.
We do neighborhood Candy Grabs in Camden and in the North Loop in the spring. Mark your calendar: April 12 in Camden and April 19 in the North Loop. You can help, as each candy grab will have an egg stuffing party the week before and both events need donations of individually wrapped candies.
Our next UNITED service is Sunday, April 13. This is where we have one combined service bringing all of our communities together for ONE UNITED SERVICE. Let’s celebrate Palm Sunday TOGETHER!
Corner Church Missions Trip to Spain– September 2025! Join us as we visit and encourage our missionaries, Brian & Christa Isidore, in Alicante, Spain! Dates: September 1-10, 2025. Estimated Cost: $2,000 - $3,000 per person. 3 to 5 spots available. Email Greg Barber if you are interested: greg@corner.church.

Dialogue Question:

Give each of these moments a score

1 • I welcome help with only positive feelings
5 • I fend off help with strong negative feelings

Receiving help after dropping stuff
Being told that there is something in your teeth
Being helped to your feet after falling
Being told your zipper is down
Receiving help with a tech issue
Having something explained to you for the third time
Receiving extra help with work you are struggling with
Being helped with the explanation of something
Being reminded of someone’s name
Being comforted when emotions leak out


What stands out to you as you give these moments a score?

Dialogue Question:

What are some of your barriers to being helped?

Dialogue Question:

After acknowledging the stated barriers to being helped, what changes internally and externally when you ask for help?

Dialogue Question:

What is the impact of a person catching a little of the reality that God (the all-powerful God) values me (little old me)?

Isaiah 53:2 • Unimpressive
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

Luke 2:1-7
7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

Isaiah 53:3 • Rejected • Felt pain • Not revered
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

Matthew 4:1-2 • Tested
4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

Matthew 8:20 • Impoverished
20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

John 15:20 • Persecuted
20 “Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.”

Matthew 16:21 • Jesus walked towards suffering
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.

Matthew 27:20-22 • We want Barabbas
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed. 21 “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor. “Barabbas,” they answered. 22 “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked. They all answered, “Crucify him!”

Isaiah 53:4 • Takes on our pain and suffering
4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

Matthew 27:45-50 • Jesus cries out to God on the cross
45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). 47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.” 48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.” 50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

Isaiah 53:5 • Pierced for our transgressions
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

John 3:16 • God’s love
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 26:26-28 • Jesus’ sacrifice for us
26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” 27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”

Matthew 11:4-6 • Signs that Jesus is the Messiah
4 Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: 5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. 6 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

Isaiah 53:6 • Taking our iniquities
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

John 10:11-13 • The good shepherd
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.”

John 3:17 • Save the world
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Isaiah 53:7 • Endured willingly
7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Matthew 27:12-14 • Jesus didn’t defend Himself
12 When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer. 13 Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?” 14 But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor.

Matthew 27:41-44 • Jesus was mocked on the cross
41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

Isaiah 53:8 • His life taken for our failings
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.

Matthew 27:31-33 • Jesus crucified
31 After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. 32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”).

Matthew 27:50-53 • Jesus dies and the temple curtain tears
50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. 51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

Isaiah 53:9 • Burial
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Matthew 27:57-60 • Jesus placed in a rich man’s tomb
57 As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59 Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

Isaiah 53:10-11 • An offering for our failing
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. 11 After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

2 Corinthians 5:19 • Jesus died for our sins
9 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

Romans 1:1-6 • Grace received through Jesus’ sacrifice
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 53:12 • Bore the sins of many
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Luke 23:39-43 • Grace and forgiveness for the man crucified next to Jesus
39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Romans 8:31-34 • Jesus is for us
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

Dialogue Questions:

This chapter is the promise of a Messiah who will suffer and die for the sins of humanity, ultimately bringing redemption and salvation to those who believe.

But what is the value of this?
What is the impact of having faith in this?

Dialogue Question:

What changes as we ask Jesus for help?

Take It Deeper Questions
Read Isaiah 53.
When have you been picked on? When have you picked on someone else?
What do you see in this chapter that points towards Jesus?
How does this chapter make Jesus and His actions more clear?
What is the impact of God’s love, approval, and/or valuing of you?
How are you challenged, focused, encouraged, and/or confused by this text?

Bible Reading Plan
Isaiah 52
Isaiah 53
Matthew 27
Luke 23
Romans 8