Fear of the Lord – Exodus 1:8-22
Fear of the Lord – Exodus 1:8-22
He is Here – in the Wilderness Over this Advent season in preparation of our heart and minds for Christmas we will be reflecting on the tag line – He is Here – and ways in which that is witnessed in our human experience. He is here – in the valley; in the wilderness; in the storm; always Well this Advent we…
Exodus 20:17 (ESV) “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.” In this message Pastor Riley Smith considers the final of the Ten Commandments, ‘you shall not covet’. This message…
In this sermon, we come to the 7th commandment, “You shall not commit adultery”. As we look to this commandment, the context of the exclusive covenant relationship that God invited his people into comes into view. Over the course of the series we’ve seen how God was forming for himself a people in the nation of…
“You shall not steal” Exodus 20:15 – the eight commandment in God’s top ten that he gave to his people after bringing them up out of slavery in Egypt. At the giving of the law, Yahweh was forming for himself a people through whom all nations would be blessed & come to know the one…
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour. When it came to settling disputes for the people of God, when it came to settling lawsuits and when it came to justice being done, the people of Israel were called to be set apart from the nations, to be marked out by their truth, to…
If ever there were to be a commandment that we could skip over…if ever there was one in the list that we’d be tempted to think didn’t speak into our lives in Victor Harbor in the 21st C…it would be this week’s commandment. Exodus 20:13 “You will not murder.” Most people would have known that this…
God who calls: Exodus chapters 3 and 4 describe God’s encounter with Moses for the purpose of drawing him into His plan. These chapters describe his encounter with God. His life is re-oriented. We too are called to what God is doing. What is our response to the call of God?
Scott Higgins (Baptist minister and Director of Community Engagement for Baptist World Aid Australia) writes (How do the parties compare: asylum seeker and refugee policy) “The world faces a refugee crisis. 20 million people are refugees and another 2 million are seeking asylum. There are three possible solutions for those who are refugees: that they be returned home when it becomes safe…
Sabbath day rest I still have memories of travelling with my family in our two-toned grey and pink FC Holden sedan with its Stromberg double venturi downdraft carburetor between Devonport and Launceston and seeing a farmer in his tractor ploughing up the field, much to my father’s disdain. It was the Lord’s Day, or Sunday.…