Throughout the month of December, our Christmas theme is about Honour, which happens to be one of our values. Honour means giving respect and high esteem. And throughout December, six times in fact, we will be honouring six people who were a part of the first Christmas story. Today, we are looking at a person who lived 700 years before the first Christmas and yet was an important person in announcing the birth of the Messiah. Today we are honouring the Prophet Isaiah with whom God used over a period of forty years around 740 to 700 B.C. Isaiah’s ministry paralleled the rule of four kings (Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah). Isaiah is often thought of as the greatest of the writing prophets.