"Service" is a word with a lot of baggage, and rightly so. Too many people in history have been abused and disregarded as "servants."

So what does it mean for us to serve God? How does Jesus transform our understanding of service?

*Due to technical issues, the last few minutes of this sermon were not recorded.

What can we do when the way ahead seems too rocky? When it feels like the pressures we face will overcome us? Psalm 121 helps point us in the right direction.

In the middle of the Bible there's a playlist for those who are weary and need rhythm to find their way home. Psalm 120 is the first of these "songs of ascent."

After God's dramatic salvation of the Israelites from the armies of Egypt, they stopped to compose the first recorded song in Scripture. What does this song tell us about God?

What can we do when the complicated evil of our hearts and the darkness of our world cloud our vision?

As the Israelites are leaving Egyptian slavery, Moses takes the bones of an ancestor named Joseph with them. What can this strange action tell us about what it means to be in God's family?

As they are leaving slavery and their hearts are looking forward to what's next, God gives the Israelites a ritual in Exodus 13 to help train their imaginations on their worth and treasure. What can this strange ritual teach us about Jesus?