The One You Serve

Leviticus 1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD. When I was a kid, I remember going with a friend to a...

An Exclusive Relationship

Exodus 34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee. Recently, I saw a story about a wedding photographer who was trying to get what my wife and I sometimes call...

Impatience is Not Faith

Exodus 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land...

Drowning and Thirsting

Exodus 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. Exodus 15 is perhaps the oldest poem in the world,...

Know Where You Are

Exodus 14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. My dad has often told the story of a time when as a little boy he was not doing what was right. He wasn’t guilty of anything that was a...