Weekday Word w/ Eric

Tag: moses

  • Who Is Your Moses? Your Joshua?

    Joshua 1:1-6 – After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide:  “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.  I…

  • Faithing Together

    Exodus 17:8-13 – The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.  Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”                 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered,…

  • Moses All In

    Exodus 14:21-31Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and God, with a terrific east wind all night long, made the sea go back. He made the sea dry ground. The seawaters split.The Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground with the waters a wall to the right and to the left. The…

  • I Have Great Reasons for Resisting…

    Read Exodus 3 – 4:16 (The Calling of Moses) A much longer scripture today so I’ll keep it short.  This story of Moses’ call is very dear to me.  I so identify with Moses’s objections to what God wanted him to do.  I could not imagine myself doing what God was calling me to do…

  • Moses

    Exodus 2:1-10 – Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman,  and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.  But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him…

  • The Gift of Glory

    Matthew 17:1-13, The Message – Six days later, three of them saw that glory. Jesus took Peter and the brothers, James and John, and led them up a high mountain. His appearance changed from the inside out, right before their eyes. Sunlight poured from his face. His clothes were filled with light. Then they realized…

  • Poor Peter. . .and Me

    Matthew 16:21-23, NRSV – From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.  And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him,…