"Go, eat, heal, tell." Jesus sends his disciples out to announce the in-breaking reign of God...and at the center of this kingdom good news is table-fellowship. In a world where we find ourselves as insiders at the table, Jesus challenges us...

The Pharisees used meal settings to show who had God's approval. If you were at the table, God accepted you; if you weren't invited, well...you got the message. But Jesus liked to eat with all the wrong people in all the wrong places...

We eat with those we love. Even in the lives of children it can be seen that tables are places of inclusion and exclusion. In the culture in which Jesus lived, eating with someone conveyed friendship and respect. Meals were used to reinforce who...

The time has come...the people of Israel are ready to enter the land to embrace their calling - the purpose for which God has delivered them. Moses gathers the people and asks them to remember all that God has done, and their identity as a people who...

As the people of Israel approach the land promised to them, God tells them to send leaders to scout out the land. The report comes back - "the land is good...but we can't do it." 10 leaders keep an entire generation from the destiny God...

"Pack up. Move. Now, stay put where you are. Okay, move again. Go where I show you. Follow me." As the people of Israel depart from Sinai, God leads them out onto the open road. Some days God asks them to pick up and move. Other days he has...

In the ancient world, you never knew where you stood with the gods. So you would make sacrifice after sacrifice, trying to earn or keep their favor. Within that context, God invites Israel to "draw near." In a revolutionary step forward in...

The desert road leads to the mountain of Sinai...the place where God will ratify his covenant with his people. God has rescued Israel and brought them out of Egypt for this singular purpose: that they might become a kingdom of priests and a holy...

In an epic series of events, God rescues the people of Israel and brings them out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. God is leading his people into a new life, and toward the land he has promised for them. But as the people emerge...