Sermons on Exodus

“Digging Ourselves into a Hole”

Exodus 32:1-14             {Prayer}             Traveling through Nebraska one wintery yet spring like evening, Jessica and I came upon a vehicle on the side of the road. As we slowly drove by, it looked like they needed some help. So we decided that we since we were on our way home and it was kind…

“Strike the Rock!”

Exodus 17:1-7             {Prayer}             When we don’t get enough water, we confuse our thirst for hunger. What happens when we do that? We eat. We eat when we don’t need to eat. And what does that mean for us? We gain weight.             When we don’t get enough water, we also become tired, dizzy,…

“Stop Trying and Start Trusting”

Exodus 14:1-29             {Prayer}             Try to picture this. The National Youth Gathering youth and leaders, about 25 people in all, are flying on Southwest to New Orleans. As the Boeing 737 starts taxing down the runway, the youth start flapping their arms like a bird. The flight attendants come along and are like “What…

“How God Changes Us”

Exodus 3:1-14           {Prayer}           What do you want to change in your life? Maybe a bad habit? A bad relationship? A bad attitude? A bad situation? Or maybe a bad decision? What is it that you look at and say, “This just isn’t right. It’s got to change!”?           We live in a society…

“Mercy in the Open Tomb”

Exodus 15:1-18             {Prayer}             In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, there is a tomb which is known as the “opened grave”. It is the tomb of a noblewoman, Henriette von Ruling, who died in 1782. Her tomb, her above ground vault is immense and is constructed of heavy stone with a large and imposing…

False Reality

Exodus 16:1-12 {Prayer}             I hate going to the eye doctor.  It’s not because of the “which is better, a or b?” kind of questions.  As much as I don’t like things touching my eye, even the little tapping pressure machine isn’t that bad.  The thing I hate about the eye doctor are things like…

Common Thoughts That Lead to Consuming Passions

Exodus 20:17 Dear Friends in Christ,    The human body…a subject that I have to confess has fascinated me ever since I took an anatomy and physiology course in college. It is a masterpiece of intelligent design.  It is amazing how all of its different parts – heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, muscles, bones, nerves, skin,…

First Encounters

Exodus 19:1-9 “First Encounters”             {Prayer}             First impressions … first impressions are huge.  First impressions play a large role especially in the world of human resources.  As a Human Resource Manager for a private food manufacturing company before going to seminary and becoming a pastor, how the application looked when I received it made…

You Lie!

Exodus 20:16 ESV16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Dear Friends in Christ,    Most of you here today have probably heard the phrase, “the shot heard round the world,” and you might even remember from your days in history class that this was the first shot fired in Boston back in April of…

Come Closer to God

Exodus 24:8-18  (ESV)8 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 10 and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet…