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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Lessons on Living from Moses ,THE SALVATION BOAT

Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. Boats have played an important role in God’s plan of salvation...

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Lessons on Living from Moses, REAPING WHAT YOU SOW

Exodus 1:20-21 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty. And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them. When a farmer sows corn, assuming he does what’s necessary to cultivate the soil and the weather cooperates,...

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