OBEY | EXODUS 19:4-6
OBEY | EXODUS 19:4-6 In the story of Exodus God is about one thing: rescuing Israel and calling them to be his people. After the Red Sea, after the fire and cloud begins, after providing water from the rock and bread from heaven, God says to Moses: "See how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself (Exodus 19:4)."
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OBEY | LIFE WITH GOD "I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." Exodus 19:4-6
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OBEY | LIFE IN MARRIAGE I remember hanging out at a skatepark when I was younger. All these high school kids were talking about sex. This one kid kept responding: dude, sex is over rated. I remember thinking I don't know what your experience was man, but I'm guessing it wasn't awesome. I've heard people talk of their marriages similarly: marriage is okay, kinda overrated.
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OBEY | LIFE WITH KIDS You may have kids? You might not? If you do, then I want you to think about what it means to make your kids blossom in all that they do? It begins with a life with Jesus as his grace flows into every other area of their life. If you don't have kids, think about the kids might have or kids you get to hang out with via family member or friends.
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OBEY | LIFE AT WORK "work is hard; that's why they call it work." How do you find your place in work? If Exodus 19:4-6 is right, about following God in obedience as he makes us his people, then we should be able to follow him in work as well. But first, a few categories:
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OBEY | LIFE ON MISSION Abigail's our resident family artist. She draws; she paints; she makes things, craft things. It's part of who God's made her to be. One Christmas, a couple years ago, she made the family a gift. It's pretty common for her to make gifts, but this one took a while. For days she was in her craft area making this gift for the whole family. She was drawing, using paper, paying attention to detail.
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OBEY | LIFE AS PRODUCERS "Ah...the art of productivity." I love this part of these blog posts. I love the word productivity. I love calling myself a producer. It implies as sense of activity that I seek with every breath. It's part of my being. I breath productivity; not because I'm amazing at it, but because I want to be.
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OBEY | LIFE AND SUFFERING Here's my thought: if God knows my heart, then he knows I don't understand suffering. C.S. Lewis calls this the impossibility. As humans we find it impossible to understand how a good God could allow suffering. "If God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished." The Problem of Pain
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OBEY | LIFE AND SEX So now we come to the sex part. You've clicked the link. You're intrigued by the word sex. Aren't we all? You probably, like many others, have views on sex. These views are most deeply entrenched in who you are. They make up how you think? What you do? How you live? Where your heart goes on a rainy day?
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OBEY | A LIFE OF FAITH We coming to the end of these "OBEY" posts. What we've discovered in Exodus 19:4-6 that God moves his people from a "rescued people" to a people called to be the "people of God". In the middle of this statement is the call to obey the commandments of God.
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