Reading: Exodus 32-34, Psalm 28 We’ve been up on a mountain for a while, so let’s look back a moment. For the last few days we have been looking in on a conversation between God and Moses, in which God tells how the people of Israel can have an intercessor with him. Right
Reading: Exodus 30-31, Psalm 27 During my first year of seminary one of the many tests and evaluations we were subject to was the spiritual gifts inventory. These were well intentioned, and were helpful to some extent in determining what areas of church service students might be apt to. The results were things
Reading: Exodus 25-27, Psalm 25 Moses has gone to speak with God, and there is a new creation is coming. Exciting, yes? It is one of the things God does. He makes all things new. So let’s get into it. God has Moses collect a bunch of materials from the people, brings up a couple
Reading: Exodus 19-21, Psalm 23 Laws. The word “law” has an extensive definition in most dictionaries, indicating the verbose nature of the legal profession. Early in legal history (about 3800 years ago), the Babylonians wrote their extensive laws down and posted them throughout the empire. It would be like the entire US Code
Reading: Exodus 16-18, Psalm 22 I am good at school tests. I can remember things fairly easily, recall information at a decent if not instant pace, and make a convincing argument in an essay. The tests we give in school are pretty ideal for me. But there are other kinds of tests. Today we
Reading: Exodus 13-15, Psalm 21 In the last year I had the distinct pleasure of filing numerous pieces of paperwork at various levels of government. There are few things as joyous as the regulatory rules of cities, counties, states, and the federal government of the United States. Makes me want to party every
Reading: Exodus 10-12, Psalm 20 Humans have been keeping time by calendars for about as long as there have been humans. The cycles of the sun and moon let us measure the year from prehistory, and it certainly appears that the transition from one year to the next, despite it being a rather arbitrary
Reading: Exodus 7-9, Psalm 19 The narrative of the plagues makes a really good movie. Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments makes the plagues the centerpiece of the movie (in both cases. Think Hollywood remakes are a new idea? This guy remade his own epic film.) More recently, the Dreamworks animated film The Prince of Egypt seemed