Colossians 2:16-17 16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 2 Big Pictures Thoughts From Colossians This Christmas Life and Christmas are … Continue reading 12/23/18 – Choosing Substance Over Shadow This Christmas →

Exodus 4:13-14 ESV 13 But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” 14 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees … Continue reading 12/16/18 – Patient – The God Who Seeks Progress Not Perfection →

Exodus 4:10-17 ESV 10 But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or … Continue reading 12/9/18 – Irrelevant and Irreverant – Any Old Bush Will Do →

Exodus 3:15-3:22 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. … Continue reading 12/02/18 – Closed and Just – The God Who Has Determined the Redemptive Rejoicing End and Middle from the Beginning →

Exodus 3:7-15 ESV 7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up … Continue reading 11/25/18 – Eternal and Immutable I Am – We can Count on the Eternal Unchanging God and Count on Him to Change Us →

Exodus 3:7-4:17 7And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out … Continue reading 11/18/18 – God Saves Us, God Shapes Us, and God Sends Us →

Exodus 3:1-6 1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the … Continue reading 11/11/18 – Presence – The God Who Stoops And Speaks →

Exodus 2:23-25 ESV 23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with … Continue reading 11/4/18 – Personal Friend – Promise Keeper →

Exodus 2:11-22 ESV 11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the … Continue reading 10/28/18 – Exile And Covenant – Living as Sojourners Under Sovereignty →

Exodus 2:1-25 ESV 1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for … Continue reading 10/21/18 – Sovereignty and Providence – Trusting a God Who Works and Weaves All Things Together →