For the last 25 years, SCC has been a grace place. Hundreds of people have moved from guilt to grace here as they’ve grown and matured in their walks with Jesus.

For the last 25 years, God has been changing lives here at Shelbyville Community Church. Because of Jesus, it would be fair to say that we traffic in the currency of life change! When we talk about Jesus changing lives, what we are saying is that we are living more and more out of our new identity in Christ. We are becoming better husbands, wives, co-workers, employers, neighbors, brothers, and sisters. We are moving from indifference to love, from bitterness to forgiveness, and comfort to passion.

SCC has been a trophy for the faithfulness of God for 25 years. We’ve seen his faithfulness again and again and again. This week we hear some stories of God's faithfulness and the look at the faithfulness of God through the birth of his son.

What is obsolete always gets the boot. When something “new” comes along, we generally get rid of the old. So how does that apply to the Old Testament, and, more specifically, to the Old Covenant given through Moses in the book of Exodus?

"Then the Lord said to Moses..." What does God require of Moses with regard to his Word? God requires Moses to be faithful to his Word. Through the first six chapters, Moses has been getting lesson after lesson about obedience. In chapter seven we finally see Moses follow through with what God asks of him.

Many of us have never moved past our past because of strongholds from our present. A stronghold is a powerful agreement that we enter into with the accuser that keeps us in bondage and oppression. These agreements are so subtle we are often unaware of how powerfully they enslave us. Often, these strongholds are generational, being passed down from one generation to the next.

The journey toward freedom is usually full of opposition. In other words, things sometimes get worse before they get better. Moses met God at the burning bush. He knows exactly what to do, but things don't quite go the way they should.

Sometimes God uses signs & wonders to accomplish His purposes. They aren’t parlor tricks or magic shows, usually coming in the context of simple trust & obedience. In Exodus 4, God gives Moses 3 signs aimed at showing God’s power over the mightiest nation on earth: Egypt.

We live in a day & age where people believe we have the right to define God. We want to make God in our own image. We want to believe that we get to define God’s character. We tend to twist God’s identity into

something that we can bend to our image. This is the ultimate in identity theft! But we’re meant to find our identities through His identity. We weren’t intended to live with the pressure of impression management!

People hurt. It's the reality that we live in. And in the first two chapters of Exodus we see the Israelites groaning and calling out for help because of their circumstances. A lot has happened in the first two chapters of Exodus, but there is something missing. Up until this point we don't hear about God or hear from God. But in the last three verses of chapter two the story takes a shift as we see that God hears and God remembers.