2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites threw a temper tantrum…more than once. First they thought they were not going to get water, then they didn’t have enough food. Yet God always provided. In the midst of the desert...
13 “The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.” The Israelites were trapped between the Egyptians and the sea. They were caught between fleeing and fighting. Both options require action. Yet Moses told them to be still - no action required....
12 "Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” Freedom! The Israelites had seen God’s mighty...
14 “In days to come when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ Say to him, ‘With a mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.” 430 years! That’s how long the Israelites had been in Egypt and now...
7 “I will take you to be My people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.” It took one more plague for Pharaoh to...
7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son then an heir through God. A key word in our reading this week was “slavery.” Normally we think of a group of people, in this case the Israelites, as being unfairly...
6 “…I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.” And God did what he promised! Discuss the plagues: The Nile turned to blood, frogs, gnats, flies, sick and dying livestock, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness so black you could not...
6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. But the number of bricks that they made in...
12 But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites won’t listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me since I speak with faltering lips?” Ever have to do something like a chore or homework and instead you come up with excuses as to why you...
22 Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?” Moses was in a tough place. He made Pharaoh mad, and then Pharaoh made life even harder on the Israelites. Discuss...