A Reformed Church in Wasilla, Alaska
Exodus
Sunday worship Last Sunday we wrapped up our study of Exodus. For the last two years I’ve been preaching primarily from this book of the Bible, and I trust that the congregation has benefited from going through it passage by passage (I did skip a couple of sections). As we looked at Exodus week by week,…
Sunday worship For the last two years I’ve been preaching from the book of Exodus and we’ve come almost to the end. Since some of the final chapters contain material that is almost identical to earlier chapters (namely, the details of the tabernacle and its accoutrements), I will skip to the end and preach from chapter 40 this coming Sunday. So one more sermon from Exodus.…
Sunday worship In the morning I preached from one of the more curious passages in Exodus, the shining face of Moses in 34:29-35. Thankfully God has given us an inspired commentary on this strange account, found in 2 Corinthians 3. So the sermon text was from Exodus but we spent just as much time looking at…
Sunday worship At the morning service this past Lord’s Day the focus of the sermon was God’s covenant, from Exodus 34:10-28. The Lord responded with these words to Moses’ prayer that God would continue to be present with his people despite their sin: “Behold, I am making a covenant” (v.10). This was not a brand-new covenant,…
Sunday worship At the morning service on Sunday I preached from Exodus 34:1-9, on the subject of knowing God. In this text the Lord passes by Moses on the top of Mt. Sinai and proclaims to him his name: The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,…
27 below zero – that’s the lowest temperature I saw on our Suburban’s rearview mirror a few days ago at a friend’s house in Wasilla. That’s real cold, but thankfully we have Fairbanks to make us feel better. A friend who was up there for work said it was minus 43 one day. So it…
Sunday worship At the morning service I preached on Exodus 32:15-35, “part two” of the story of the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf. The focus of the sermon was on the consequences of sin. As the Israelites learned from their bitter experience, though God may mercifully forgive us our transgressions the sins we commit often result in…
Sunday worship This past Lord’s Day we returned to the book of Exodus, just in time for what was surely the spiritual nadir of the Israelites’ time in the wilderness: worshiping the golden calf. As Moses was about to come down from Mt. Sinai with the two tablets in hand containing the 10 Commandments, the Israelites ran out…
I came across this article today commemorating the late J. Alec Motyer, a British Old Testament scholar who passed away last Friday. The article immediately caught my eye because I was familiar with Motyer’s name. He wrote an excellent commentary on Isaiah that I read while preaching through Isaiah at the evening services at Grace. His work…