Exodus 25-31, 35-40What is the point of life? Some say there is no point, no design, no purpose. Others say there’s just the meaning we give to life. Others still say there is an ultimate purpose. But where do we find it? In an unlikely place. In a tent in the desert in the Middle East in 1500BC.
Exodus 33-34A close encounter of the third kind is one thing, but what about a close encounter of the God kind? Moses certainly had some pretty impressive experiences, but what about us? What kind of experience of God should we seek and expect today?
Exodus 32 Sometimes it can be very tempting to reshape God until he’s more in line with our preferences. Listen in as Israel make that mistake and build a Golden Calf.
Exodus 24:1-18William Tyndale said that the gospel is good news that “makes a man’s heart glad and makes him sing, dance and leap for joy”. But what is so good about the good news? And how can we grasp that more? And how can we recover our joy in it if we’ve lost it?
Exodus 18:1-12 ‘Did you even hear what I said?’ is a phrase that gets used a lot- at work, at home, in relationships. Exodus wants to ask us the same question- have we heard what God’s said about himself in his great acts of deliverance. Listen in as we watch one man responding rightly.
Exodus 15:22-17:7 We live in one of the most prosperous societies there has ever been, yet it is still full of grumbling. If society’s promises let us down, will it be the same with God? Do we have to grumble at God’s failure to provide or have we got good reason to trust him to work all things for our good. Listen in as we look at Israel’s experience in the desert.
Exodus 20:22-23:33 ’What has happened to all your joy?’ The Galatian believers to whom Paul wrote those words had a wrong understanding of the Law. It had robbed them of their joy and ran the risk of robbing them of their salvation. What is the relationship of the Christian to the Law? It’s vital we get this right.
Exodus 14:1-15:21 Like the Israelites at Red Sea, we find ourselves fearing what’s coming over the hill toward us. Even if we don’t call it fear, we find ourselves controlled by what a colleague, an employer, a family member thinks of us. In this account, God shows that it is actually only a greater fear which can drive out fear.
Exodus 19:1-20:21 The 10 Commandments are often seen as a ladder to climb- getting to God by our own performance. But Exodus says God’s rescue comes first. Why did God give the 10 commandments? How do they help us know God better, ourselves better and Jesus better?
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.
