Lessons on Living from Moses, JUST A NOBODY

Exodus 3:11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” On several occasions I have visited Mt. Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Each time I looked up into those...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, Acquainted With Grief

Exodus 3:7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. ” A very angry man came to his pastor and demanded to know, “Where was God when...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, HOLY GROUND

Exodus 3:5-6 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ” Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ”...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, DOUBLE DELIGHT

Exodus 3:4 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am. ” I have a confession to make. I’m a chocoholic. I’ve never met a piece of chocolate...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, NOTHING HIDDEN

Exodus 3:2-3 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father- in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The great reformer John Knox never entered a pulpit until he was 40 years old....

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Lessons on Living from Moses, PRECIOUS PROMISES

Exodus 2:24-25 So God heard their groaning, and God remem bered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them. March 11, 1942, was a dark and gloomy day on Corregidor. The Pacific theater of war was threatening...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, JUST PASSING THROUGH

Exodus 2:21-22 Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land. ” An American tourist in Israel was...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

Exodus 2:16-17 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. When we recite the pledge...

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