Category Archives: Exodus

05/22/2022 | “Raising a Stink” | Exodus 5:1-23

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God’s Word to Pharaoh raised a stink.  His heart was hardened by it.  He not only refused Moses’ demands, but made the peoples’ lives more bitter.   The Good News always raises a stink.  But Moses raised a stink as well.   Pharaoh’s is not the only unbelief.   When the gospel did not act how and when Moses thought it should, he raised a stink with God.  

How do you handle disappointment when God does not act as you expect? When His promises seem out of reach?  When following Christ makes life worse, not better.  Listen as we examine Exodus 5:1-23 and consider how we respond to disappointment.

05/15/2022 | “Ordinary” | Exodus 4;27-31

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Life is lived in the ordinary.  Waiting on the extraordinary can cause us to miss life’s greatest blessings. God does not despise the day of small things. Neither should we. He uses ordinary means to save and grow us.  Join us Sunday as we examine Exodus 4:27-31 and consider how God uses ordinary means of grace to save sinners and grow His Church.

05/08/2022 | “Signs and Seals” | Exodus 4:18-26

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How important are covenant signs?   Are they means of grace to be diligently used or nostalgic rituals to be casually employed?   The story of Zipporah and the ‘bridegroom of blood’ is no literary detour from the exodus, but gets to the heart of our faith.   Join us as we examine Exodus 4:18-26 and consider the importance of covenant ‘signs and seals.’

03/27/2022 | “Resistance is Futile” | Exodus 3:11-4:17

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At eighty years old, Moses received the call he always wanted. He waited a lifetime. But now was it too late? He once tried to right every wrong.  Now he opts out with excuse after excuse.  And finally asks God to find someone else.  But resisting God is futile.  Moses had to learn this.  And so do we.   God is patient and kind to Moses, even in his struggle to obey.  And he is patient and kind with us.   Join us this Lord’s Day as we examine Exodus 3:11-4:17 and consider the futility and the foolishness of resisting God’s call.

03/20/2022 | “Taking the Call” | Exodus 3:1-10

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God called Moses from a burning bush. It is the call he always wanted. But why now? Why him? Is this call a divine spam-risk? A scam? A crank call? Moses tries to hang up, but God’s call can’t be declined. This was true for Moses – and for you. 

Every Christian has a vocation.  Every follower of Christ is gifted and called to serve the Lord, the Body of Christ, and the world.  What is your calling?  Have you heard?  Have you heeded?   Or did you hang up, thinking God’s call was a spam-risk, a scam, or a crank-call? Listen as we examine Exodus 3:1-10 and consider how the call of Moses is unique, but also an important pattern for God’s call in every Christian’s life.

03/13/2022 | “Learning to Cry” | Exodus 2:23-25

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“Deep calls to deep” the Psalmist laments.  And deep answers deep!  This is the truth of crying out to God.   His ear is tuned to the cry of his children.   He hears, he sees, he remembers, and he knows.   No sorrow, trial, joy, crisis, or struggle slips past his loving gaze.  The Hebrew people had been slaves of countless Pharaohs and through centuries of Egyptian history.   They cried out.  And God heard.   They learned not only to cry over their condition, but to ‘cry out’ and to ‘cry out to God.’   Exodus 2:23-25 shows us this dynamic in a remarkable way.  Listen as we examine what it teaches us about learning to cry out to God.

03/06/2022 | “Wait for It” | Exodus 2:11-22

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The idle moment screams, ‘don’t just stand there, do something.’ But God says, ‘don’t just do something, stand there.’  ‘Wait!’ is often God’s plan for us.  Twenty-five times the Psalms counsel us to ‘wait upon the Lord.’   And the rest of the Bible takes up the theme.   From Genesis to Revelation, waiting is on the docket.

Moses ran ahead of God’s plan and it cost him.  Yet God was not done with Moses.  Or with you?  Your failures are not a failure for God’s plan or His plan for us.  Listen as we examine Exodus 2:11-22 and consider the grace and spiritual discipline of waiting.

02/27/2022 | “Undercover” | Exodus 2:1-10

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God sometimes goes undercover. But he is never absent. His providence in sparing baby Moses points to a later deliverer whose birth, death and rising again deliver from sin’s slavery and death. Listen to “Undercover” as Exodus 2 unfolds God’s providence and challenges us to live by faith that has ‘confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” (Hebrews 11:1)

02/20/2022 | “Under Pressure” | Exodus 1:15-22

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Pressure reveals who you are. Under intense pressure Shiphrah and Puah lived out their faith. Their quiet, principled resistance thwarted the cruelty of the tyrant. While Pharaohs passed into obscurity, these women’s names are remembered. What does it look like to live faithfully under pressure? Join us as we examine Exodus 1 and see what it looks like to walk by faith under pressure.

02/06/2022 | “Promises Kept” | Exodus 1:1-7

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Children’s stories are never just for children. Though simple, they are not simplistic. The same is true for the Old Testament. Tempted to read it as moral example or historical background, we often miss its meaning. For example, Exodus is not just a heroic story of Moses, a narrative of liberation, or a bridge from patriarchy to monarchy. But it reveals much more. Join us as we begin this story of promises kept. And a story of grace for our own lives as well.