EXodus

The life we live in Jesus Christ is filled with much joy and much pain. Times when things go as we planned and many times when they do not. One this is for sure God’s people can confidently say they are exactly where God wants them to be. He is working in it all.

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Sermon Preview for Sunday, April 26, 2026

Here are the next three statements Moses makes to God as God calls him to go back to Egypt and lead the Israelites out of slavery and into the land that has been prepared for them. First, “they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, The Lord did not appear to you.” Second, “Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Finally, “Oh my Lord, please send someone else.” I think of an older grandparent engaging in conversation with a 2- or 3-year-old grandchild, no way of knowing for sure where the conversation is headed and no way of keeping up with the line of thought. Yet the older one still sits there and listens intently to every word. This is a clear picture of patience and grace because we all know from the outside the grandparent is not gaining anything from the information given, and we all know this grandparent certainly isn’t required to sit and continue to listen. I can think of many examples throughout the entirety of scripture when God works within his own sovereign will to provide the very thing a doubter was asking for so they would believe. I do not believe God does this because He has to, as if our petitions and pleas of desperation somehow put Him in our debt, I believe God does this because baked into God’s sovereign will and flawless nature is the absolute reality that God is gracious and slow to anger. He desires the lost to repent and be saved, the doubter to see and believe, and the weak one to find strength to carry on. I say Hallelujah to and for our wonderful, merciful, God. 

Sermon Preview for Sunday, April 19, 2026

“I AM WHO I AM” is God’s name and it means our God is the one and only self-existing and eternal God. He is also “the God of our fathers”, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He is the One True God who exists completely and entirely outside of our existence, yet He is the only God who has, at great cost to Himself, endured our existence and introduced, or revealed, Himself to us. YAHWEH is over all, all things answer to Him, and there is nowhere we could ever go that He is not there already doing His work. If He is sending you or I anywhere we can rest assured He has gifted us, equipped us, and is already working where we will end up. I believe this is all true, and if it is, then that means the only thing missing in this process for great things to be accomplished for the Kingdom of Heaven is our complete trust and surrender to this Truth. Will we trust our God today? This seems to be the foundational question we face each and every day of our lives. It has been at the center of God working through flawed, sinful men from the beginning of the book of Genesis, and it will be there all the way until our face-to-face realization of the realities of Revelation. How patient, how loving, how long-suffering our God must be? He endures every day the excuses of men and He works minute by minute, day by day, little by little, inside our hearts in the power of the Holy Spirit until these “ye of little faith” hearts are ready to respond in complete surrender to His work.