While our congregation is reading through Exous, Leviticus and Numbers, I thought I would add some daily notes of things that caught my imagination. Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me,… Read More »
Something occurred to me last night as we were reading the Exodus story as a family. For some reason I never noticed this before, but it was tremendous. In Exodus 12, YHWH comes down into the midst of Egypt and he slays the firstborn of every household in the land, both Jew and Egyptian. In… Read More »
This morning, I am reposting an entry from back in February 2009. Back then, the church I mention – Next Level Church – was in its infancy. Since then, NLC has grown to several locations. This was months before we began the merger process that produced Bedford Road Baptist Church, and I was the pastor of one of our… Read More »