Exodus 11:1-13:16 Captain Phillips is an edge-of-your-seat drama about the rescue of a container ship from Somali pirates. There’s nothing quite like a good rescue drama, but it can feel very remote from our daily lives. The difference with the rescue drama in Exodus is that it’s actually all about us.
Exodus 7:1-10:29 Domino’s Pizza have an online service called ‘Make a pizza legend’. You create your own pizza just as you want it and then even give it a name of your choosing. It’s not like that with God. We don’t decide what he is like. He reveals that to us.
Exodus 11:1-13:16 Captain Phillips is an edge-of-your-seat drama about the rescue of a container ship from Somali pirates. There’s nothing quite like a good rescue drama, but it can feel very remote from our daily lives. The difference with the rescue drama in Exodus is that it’s actually all about us.
Exodus 7:1-10:29 Domino’s Pizza have an online service called ‘Make a pizza legend’. You create your own pizza just as you want it and then even give it a name of your choosing. It’s not like that with God. We don’t decide what he is like. He reveals that to us.
Isaiah 56:1-57:5According to one survey, over a lifetime we spend 27 days waiting for trains and 6 whole months waiting in queues. But waiting is actually integral to the Christian life. We are waiting for salvation. But Christian waiting is an active thing, characterised by the three hallmarks in this passage.
Isaiah 42:1-12 Is Jesus really the Christ, the Son of God, come into the world to rescue us? What’s the evidence? At Easter time we rightly focus on his resurrection as proof, but one compelling strand of evidence we sometimes overlook is the Old Testament prophecies about the one God would send. In this ‘Prophecy for Dummies’ series we look at three of them in the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah 42:1-12There are times when we may feel God has forgotten us, or we feel failures because of sin, or we feel despair looking at the state of the world. What does God say to us at such times? “Behold my servant”.
