Dave Faulkner. Musings of an evangelical Methodist minister.
Continuing with the story of Moses and the Israelites, this week we arrive at Exodus 33:12-23.
However, rather than explore this story, I’m taking up one important theme in it – the presence of God – and giving a sketch of that subject as it appears through Scripture.
I hope you find these thoughts helpful in your own life.
In this week’s video, you may think I get a tad provocative, taking aim at the secular religion of inclusiveness, which truly is a golden calf.
To find out why, watch this week’s reflections:
Continuing this week with those pesky Israelites. In Exodus 17:1-7 they’re still moaning about God. Except they’ve upped the ante. Now it’s a full-blown quarrel.
It’s one thing bringing our pain to God, it’s quite another to quarrel with him. How do we avoid the spiritual danger of hardening our hearts against God? Here are my thoughts.
I mention a song during the talk – ‘Land of the Living’ by Bryn Haworth. You can listen to it below and you can buy it here.
This week, I reflect on the story of God providing manna in the wilderness for the Israelites in Exodus 16:1-15. Given that human nature hasn’t changed over three thousand years, I look at how the ways God cured their moaning can be effective when we become religious whingers today.
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This week’s video is based on Exodus 12:1-14, where God institutes the Passover as he prepares to liberate the Israelites from slavery and a genocidal Pharaoh in Egypt.
I’m giving this talk live in our first service back at Knaphill Methodist Church on Sunday 6th September, but attendance is only by pre-booking due to social distancing limitations and all spaces are taken.
The prayers here are different from those I’m using in the Knaphill service, because the latter is a communion service and I’m not allowed by the Methodist Church to lead communion online.
And here’s the second video I forgot to publish. This is me from last week on how the Israelites demonstrate the power of remembering (unlike Pharaoh and Egypt) as seen in Exodus 1:8-2:10
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