A daily, 32-day Lenten Devotional Series by Rev. Dave Brown
Exodus 2:11-25
The issue of injustice never seems to get resolved. People mistreat people and get away with it. In many cases, the anger that arises from injustice is righteous. The question is how to proceed in a righteous way to a peaceful and just resolution.
A daily, 32-day Lenten Devotional Series by Rev. Dave Brown
Exodus 1:15-2:10
The culture of life disappeared in the first generation of human life. The culture of death made its first appearance in the second generation when Cain killed Abel. In the seventh generation, Lamech declared his allegiance to death in his boast: “I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain ‘s revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech’s is seventy-seven fold.” (Gen 4:23-24).
A daily, 32-day Lenten Devotional Series by Rev. Dave Brown
Exodus 1:1-14
Family relocation stories are complicated. We start out in one place and end in another. Or else, we stay and our family members go. Such was the story of the sons of Israel. Joseph was sold into slavery and went with a caravan to Egypt. His life was filled with ups and downs, but the LORD was with Joseph and he became the second in command, directing Egypt’s Department of Agriculture. Many years later, his 11 brothers went to Egypt in search of food after a severe famine rocked the Middle East. When the brothers were surprisingly accepted and reunited with the brother they had betrayed, these 11 persuaded their father Jacob (Israel) to leave his home for the land of Egypt.
A daily, 32-day Lenten Devotional Series by Rev. Dave Brown
Exodus 1-20
It is the season of Lent for which the 40-year journey of the Israelites in the book of Exodus is a major theme. To follow God is the main message of Exodus, the 2nd book of Moses in the Torah in the Old Testament, or Tanakh, and of the whole Bible. ...The Book of Exodus has been called “the heart of the Old Testament”. Its message is fulfilled in the New Testament. It would be hard to find a single major topic of the Old or New Testament that is not exemplified in the book of Exodus. The Key to Exodus is in the name of the LORD, His supremacy and his saving action.” (Cole:18-19) Exodus looks back to promises made in the Patriarchal Age, looks forward to the arrival in the Promised Land and looks beyond to the final fulfillment of God’s promises in heaven. “When the song of the redeemed rises in heaven, it is the Song of Moses and the Lamb.” (Rev 15:3)
A daily, 32-day Lenten Devotional Series by Rev. Dave Brown
Exodus 12:14-28
The observance of Passover on the day of deliverance was not to be a one-time event. It was to be the celebration to keep forever as an annual feast. What should be remembered each year? And by what signs and symbols should these things be remembered? It was a hasty event in the first year, but God’s intention was that it should become a seven-day feast to be remembered in all generations.