Sermons from August 2023
Exodus 3-4: The Burning Bush
Let’s read Exodus 3:1-10. Exodus 3 (CSB) 1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. 3 So Moses thought, “I must…
Learning to see the invisible
In today’s passage, we see a story of trying to carry out God’s work in our own timing and in our own strength and with our own wisdom, and how this always brings about disaster. Last week, we studied the narrative of Moses’s birth and God’s amazing protection and providence in his being saved from genocide, and being adopted by a princess of Egypt. In today’s passage, the narrative fast forwards through all of Moses’s upbringing and early adult life,…
Exodus 2:1-10 Moses’s Birth and Adoption
In this passage, God is at work in his providence through simple human deeds, all of it working towards sending a deliverer to redeem Israel from centuries of cruel bondage.
Exodus 1: Israel’s Oppression
We are beginning a sermon series for the Fall on the Book of Exodus. Exodus is filled with many well-known stories: These are all remarkable, inspiring stories that tell us who God is, and we see examples of both faith and unbelief. Examples of great deeds of faith, and extraordinary acts of evil. Almost 2/3 of the book is stories. Yet Exodus has even more to offer us than those stories. For there is something grand going on at the…