Mar 11, 2016
Exodus 12: 1-13; 29-32. This is one of the darkest, yet most wondrous passages in the Bible. A long night. Perhaps the longest night both Israel and Egypt had ever known. A foreshadowing of that long night to come, when true deliverance was purchased for us all...
Mar 11, 2016
Deuteronomy 5:1-7. The Ten Commandments begin with a preface--a context. Before God uttered a word of law to His people, He first reminded them of all His acts of mercy and power as He rescued Israel from the hands of a very stubborn king. 10 plagues, against 10 false gods, as a context to 10 commands...
Mar 11, 2016
Deuteronomy 4:15-31. G.K. Chesterton once said, "Whenever we cease to worship God alone, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything." What is idolatry? And how did it so easily and regularly become a stumbling block to God's treasured people? Is idolatry an issue in your life? Don't be offended, even Moses...
Mar 11, 2016
Deuteronomy 4:1-9. One author notes; "When the world cannot eliminate the witness of God's people through direct conflict, it often tries to neutralize that witness by absorbing the people of God into the world." It is through the gospel that we find true freedom, not through the law. But it is in the law where we...