Summit Drive Church

Exodus 32-33, the golden calf event, has sometimes been called “The Fall of Israel” as it parallels “The Fall” of all humanity in Genesis 3. In this message, we’ll see how idolatry breaks us and how Jesus allows himself to be broken to heal us.

This week, we explore the building of the Tabernacle and see a God who wants to be with us, wants our hearts, and invites us to do beautiful things for Him.

Pastor Gerald guides our look at the ‘covenant code’ and we see how God meets us where they are but doesn’t leave us there. He guides his people to a better way of living, thinking, and behaving – becoming a light and a blessing to everyone, and honouring him as his treasured possession.

Pastor Ricky explores God’s Top Ten for the Abundant Life. We see here, a God who gives us the freedom to be in relationship with Him and to live according to what He values.

God designed us to need each other. We see in Exodus 17-18 that being God’s People means we support each other as we depend on God to fight our battles, fill us with his wisdom, and share the work of making disciples of Jesus.

Exodus 16 tells the story of how God miraculously provides food for the Israelites in the wilderness. Sometimes God leads us into the wilderness too, but it is there that we learn to trust God for our daily needs and to practice the virtue of hope.

The song in Exodus 15 celebrates God’s gracious work for God’s people. We now ‘live in the story’ as we also sing with joyful response to God’s grace, and speak similar words as personal declaration, as an exercise of hope, a way to dethrone false ‘gods’, and in anticipation of God’s future.

This week, Pastor Ricky walks us into the crossing of the Red Sea. Through the circuitous journey this starts for the Israelites we can see that God often grows us the hard way.