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Not Your Average God
In the encounter with YHWH at the bush that did not burn up, Moses was alerted to the fact that this is NOT a user-friendly God. (Walter Brueggemann)
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The Pain of Intercession
Moses offers us a picture of intercession. It is probably a picture we would rather look at and observe than imitate. Intercession is hard work. Israel stayed at the base of the mountain and let Moses do the climbing to God. Intercession calls us out. To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure…
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Moses Knew the Ways of God
One of Dallas Willard’s mantra is this: The nature of the Kingdom is to ASK. Moses is a picture of asking. He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel (Ps. 103:7, NIV) Israel knew what God did. Moses knew why God did it. We have that choice. Moses did. How did he know the ways of God? He asked. If you are pleased…
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Changing the Mind of God
11 But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, “Lord, why does your fury burn against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and amazing force? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He had an evil plan to take the people out and kill them in the mountains and so wipe them off the earth’? Calm down…
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Our Impatience in Prayer
The people saw that Moses was taking a long time to come down from the mountain. They gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come on! Make us gods who can lead us. As for this man Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t have a clue what has happened to him.” (Ex. 32:1, CEB)…
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Lousy Leadership and Powerful Intercession
Next Sunday I am preaching on Moses and intercession. The main text I am starting from is Exodus 32-33. Moses has taken too long on the mountain, in the opinion of the Israelites. (They were in slavery 400 years and Moses is taking a few days. Go figure.) They quickly turn to worshiping a golden calf they forged out of…
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Your face, Lord, will I seek
We have come to an end of one journey in “Eat This Book.” This summer has been so immensely enjoyable I am hesitant to face what might be “next.” For the entire summer I had the joy of knowing what was ahead in our reading, and also the joy of knowing our congregation together was going to “preach the sermon”…
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Just Keep Still
The hard stuff usually comes right after a nice victory. There will be some incredible moment of great news that touches our lives… and then we get blindsided by some bad news, or a tough battle. Panic may even set in. We were walking in victory one minute… then… WHAM! We’re on the ground looking around… dazed. It’s in those…
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The Roundabout Way
17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God didn’t lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, even though that was the shorter route. God thought, If the people have to fight and face war, they will run back to Egypt. 18 So God led the people by the roundabout way of the Reed Sea desert. The Israelites went up out of…
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