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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Lessons on Living from Moses, LOSING THE GOOD LIFE

Exodus 2:15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. The state of Nebraska proudly proclaims that its residents enjoy “the good life.” In 1996, however, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, HIDING SIN

Exodus 2:11-12 Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, THE OMNI GOD

Exodus 2:8-9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden went and called the child’s mother. Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. ” So the woman took the child and nursed him....

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