Title: Seeing in the Dark Date: Oct 26, 2008 Author: Isaac Villegas Texts: Deut 34:1-12, Ps 90, I Thess 2:1-8, Matt 22:34-46 It’s the end for Moses. He led Israel out of Egypt and spent the rest of his life wandering in the wilderness. The Lord takes him up the mountain top of Nebo and [...]

Title: God’s own people Date: Oct 19, 2008 Author: Tom Lehman Texts: Psalm 99, Exodus 33:12-23, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Matthew 22:15-22 Today is the last of nine consecutive Sundays for which the lectionary prescribes passages from the book of Exodus. Quite by coincidence, my sermon in August started the series. We have looked at the [...]

Title: Images of God Date: October 11, 2008 Author: Isaac Villegas Texts: Ex 32:1-14; Ps 106:1-6, 19-23; Phil 4:1-9; Matt 22:1-14 Moses is taking a while up on the mountain. The people of Israel are tired of waiting. They approach Aaron, Moses’ right hand man. “Do something,” they say, “We want God.” It’s a very [...]

Title: Liberated for Bondage Date: October 5th Author: Ryan Koch Texts: Exodus 20.1-20; Psalm 19; Philippians 3.4b-14; Matthew 21.33-46 The ten commandments, perhaps no one other text is as well known in the Bible. It is so well known that in pop culture, we find movies, poems, and songs written about it (like songs by [...]