When we include and look out for outsiders, we create the healthy community that God has in mind all along, making a way out of the no way.

Spies are sent into the land of promise to see what kind of resistance Israel might meet when they entered. In the process the spies receive help and protection from a most unlikely source.

Dr. Watson discusses the book of Romans

No sooner had Moses gone to the mountain to talk with God than the people wanted an idol to worship. What are our American idols, that out of fear we create to worship in place of the living God?

When Jesus refers to our daily bread in the prayer he teaches his disciples, he is likely making reference to this story. Though the people are constantly complaining, God provides all that they need for their journey. On the tenth anniversary of a tragic day it might be good to remember that God provides all that we need as well.

Most of us think of Cecil B. DeMille's version of the crossing of the Red Sea when we imagine this story. Except it was the Sea of Reeds and wasn't nearly as dramatic as Hollywood would have us think. Except for those crossing into freedom, of course. For them it must have been way larger than life.

Is there any place in your life that you would consider holy ground? Do remember what happened there that makes you regard it as such? Well, Moses had a life-changing conversation with a voice that came from a bush, and it led him not only to consider the place holy ground but to leave a comfortable life as a shepherd and embark upon a world-changing journey.