Tag Archives: Exodus

Mike learned early in his life about rescue and what it required. Do you think Mike believed in hell? “Sit where you normally would” Contemporary thinking on hell suffers from the same fractious polarization that plagues many other areas of … Continue reading →

The Murder of Children The Exodus story begins with the multiplication of offspring and their murder. The descendants of Israel have been fruitful and have multiplied greatly to the point that the king of Egypt sees them as a threat. … Continue reading →

The Prodigal Son Every couple of months of so I get an invitation to explain Christianity to a class at a local art institute named “Myth, Magic and Ritual”. It’s an opportunity I always look forward to and am never … Continue reading →

Why Can’t Pharaoh Stop? This is week number three for us in the plagues. We’re up to #7: Nile to blood Frogs Gnats or lice flies plague that kills the livestock boils hail By the time we get to hail … Continue reading →

To Know God is to Love Him? Christians in American commonly think that the reason people don’t love God is because they don’t know him. Many who are “spiritual but not religious” seem to feel similarly. Such a god is … Continue reading →

One detail that has always bothered me about the story in Exodus of Moses and Yhwh demanding the release of Israel from Pharaoh is the tidbit that the demand is that the children of Israel receive permission to travel three … Continue reading →

In Appreciation of Pharaoh Pharaoh always gets a bad rap in the Exodus story and that’s too bad. Dialing back our judgmental posture towards Pharaoh might afford us a bit of enlightenment. I always wondered why Pharaoh didn’t just kill … Continue reading →

I am YHWH God breaks the boredom of Moses’ desert shepherding by lighting up a bush that isn’t consumed. God’s “offer you can’t refuse” to Moses achieves its result, Moses and Aaron carry the message to Pharaoh. The outcome of … Continue reading →

“Who is Yhwh that I should listen to him” Pharaoh The story of the Exodus is not so much the story of Moses vs. Pharaoh but a story about God vs. all of us. God in this story is more … Continue reading →

God vs. Moses and Pharaoh When we think about the story of Israel’s release from slavery in the book of Exodus, we usually think about it in terms of God and Moses vs. Pharaoh. We don’t usually reflect on the … Continue reading →