A sermon based on Exodus 20
You know, I’ve got most of this text that we read for today memorized. I never sat down and tried to memorize it. But I know it because when I was growing up, this chapter was read every week by our pastor at church. Each week, he would read out the ten commandments from the pulpit. And each week, sitting quietly in our pews we would absorb these words to the point where they were burned into our memories without us ever consciously learning them. I don’t think this is the me
A Difficult Path: A sermon based on Exodus 14
This story is one of the greatest moments in the Old Testament. God shows himself as a freer of slaves, a protector of the helpless, an oppressor of tyrants. Certainly this is good news, wonderful news! For this is how we can anticipate how God will work in the world! Yet the people of God went on a very difficult pa th to get there. God showed great power, but the Israelites went through great suffering. Why doesn’t God just show these magnificat acts of power, why doe
