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.

Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-25

“The man who tried to be a superhero has come to realize that he’s not a superhero. Worse yet, Moses made himself a martyr by his own hand — trying to be so faithful, so righteous, so perfect, that he inadvertently destroys himself and his neighbors."