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Honoring Unbelieving Superiors
The beginning of Exodus 18 recounts, what many would consider, the conversion narrative of Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law. In Exodus 2,...
Jared Smith
3 days ago3 min read
Jesus, the Spiritual Rock that Followed Them
Finding Christ in the Old Testament, at times, can seem like Mel Gibson’s apartment in the movie “Conspiracy Theory.” Yet, we know that...
Jared Smith
Jun 33 min read
Sabbath and Sensitive Hearts
Exodus 16 describes God’s gracious provision of bread from heaven for his people while they sojourned in the wilderness. It is a chapter...

Christopher Diebold
May 273 min read
Perspective and Agency When Facing Trials
In last week’s reflection, I made the observation that music can have a physiological impact on us, influencing even the rate at which...

Christopher Diebold
May 203 min read
Singing Praises to God as Embodied Souls
After the mighty miracle of Israel’s Red Sea crossing and Egypt’s Red Sea drowning, the people of God, whose fear of man had been turned...

Christopher Diebold
May 133 min read
Opportunities to Get What You Want
In the lead-up to the crossing of the Red Sea, YHWH tells Moses to lead the Hebrews along an erratic escape route from Egypt,...

Christopher Diebold
May 64 min read
The One Who Knows Me Better Than Myself
As the description of the Exodus resumes at the end of Exodus 13, we are invited to reflect on God’s choice of escape route: “When...

Christopher Diebold
May 14 min read
Free for Service to Christ
Immediately following the narration of the exodus from Egypt, we read in Exodus 13 that God has a claim on the firstborn of man and...

Christopher Diebold
Apr 223 min read
Imagery for the Atonement
On Easter Sunday, we have an opportunity not only to reflect on what Christ has done for us but also the effect of Christ’s death and...

Christopher Diebold
Apr 174 min read
Remembrance and Formation
In general, we can appreciate how sights, sounds, and smells can be strongly associated with certain memories. Because we inhabit time...

Christopher Diebold
Apr 83 min read
The Common and Special Operations of the Spirit
With the eighth and ninth plagues, the book of Exodus testified to the concept of God’s common grace, which is both a restraining of evil...

Christopher Diebold
Apr 13 min read
Seeing Common Grace by its (Symbolic) Absence
In Exodus 10, the plagues upon Egypt continue to increase in intensity, moving from a category of severity to extremity. The eighth and...

Christopher Diebold
Mar 253 min read
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