Accounts of God fighting for His people and giving them victory over their enemy, and even when they grumble against God and are dying, God provides a way to rescue and save them.

Jesus becomes like us and takes on our greatest trouble, sin, death and the devil, and wins the victory for our forgiveness and life.

Not only the birth of Jesus Christ, but also His circumcision into the covenant, His purification, presentation in the temple and His visit to the temple as a 12 year old boy.

Jesus is our Sabbath, our rest in Him for eternity, given to us by faith.

God's Law points us to our sin, and how we have fallen short, but the Gospel is that by faith in Jesus Christ, God delights in us.

When we mock Jesus, we say "no" to all He says and to the life He brings.

Jesus is there for those who believe Him and believe that He can heal them, but He is against those who are trying to trick Him and who do not believe.

God delivers His People from slavery in Egypt and spares them from death because of the blood of the lamb on their doorpost.

Here is life together as The Church, focussed squarely on God alone, and God being in the midst of what we do.

Paul finds out in his weakness that he can and needs to be totally dependent on God.