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Ruby Slipper Deliverance
Numbers 21:4-9 and 1 Corinthians 1:18-24
The Hebrew people’s rescue arrives in a bronze serpent lifted high — a foolish, absurd, unexpected deliverance. And now, for us today, we find a life of faith that is still beckoning us to foolish, absurd, unexpected deliverance in the cross of Christ.
Providential Particularity
Exodus 3:1-15
Moses’ identity—who he is, and where he has been—is exactly what undergirds this remarkable call. Moses is exactly who he needs to be for this calling God is giving him.
Betraying Evil
Exodus 1:8-2:10
Shiphrah and Puah are unwilling to favor their national pride over their obedience to God. And it is this obedience to God—and disobedience to their nation’s autocrat—that drives them to do what is unimaginably difficult.
Practicing Life
DEUTERONOMY 30:15-20
In the exodus from Egypt, in wandering in the wilderness, in observing the sabbath, in building the homes of God, and in prophesying against injustice, we see that choosing life places us on a path that is anything but straightforward; and we see that choosing life requires choosing it again and again.