When Moses goes up the mountain to meet with God, Israel creates a Golden Calf. What does this passage teach us about how we try to fabricate God’s presence in our lives and how does it turn us towards Christ and our need for him?

God shares his glory with His people at Sinai in fire, smoke, lightning, and earthquake, but he shrouds himself in darkness on the mountain of the Lord. At Sinai God introduces himself to the entire nation of Israel, but only allows Moses to come up the mountain into the darkness. What does this incredible display teach us about God and how we approach him?

In the wilderness God provides for Israel to teach him to live by his voice. God rains down bread from heaven to provide for them, but somehow they find themselves longing for the chains of their old master.

The crossing of the Red Sea is the most dramatic event of the Old Testament. It is far more than just a miraculous event, it is God’s victory over Pharaoh, the redemption of Israel, and the beginning of a new life. On the other side of the Red Sea, Israel belonged to a new Master.

God draws close to Moses by appearing to him in a burning bush. Now God draws close to Pharaoh and reveals Himself to him through the plagues and Passover. Come with us as we wrestle with this difficult passage and find out what it means for us.

There are many names for God in the Bible, but at the burning bush God revealed to Moses His forever name, His eternal name. What is it and why should we care? How will bearing His eternal name change us and what does it reveal about God?

Joseph's story is full of ups and downs, but God was with Joseph and he meant all the evil that happened to him for good. The story of Joseph is an Easter kind of story, because it ends with forgiveness and an empty tomb and points to another empty tomb.

Jacob finds himself homeless, a fugitive, a wanderer. And what does that mean for us? Jacob is in his darkest season of life. He's lost everything and is hopeless. And this is where God meets with him. Maybe that's exactly where God will meet with you too.

What kind of God who would call his servant to sacrifice his own son? Why does God put His own people to the test? And what does that mean for us? It’s in the brutality of this story that we find the beauty of the God in this story.

God marks his people as his own and reminds them of his promises. That began with Abraham and the sign of circumcision, it was a sign that God had made him promises and that he would keep them. God has also marked you as his own in Christ.

Doubt is inevitable. God’s promise to Abraham hits a seemingly immovable obstacle – Sarah is barren. How does God engage Abraham when he cries out to him amidst his doubt and vexation? How does God use doubt to move us to a deeper faith in him?

God calls Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldeans to begin a new life and journey to a land that God would show him. Abraham was the first disciple, called by God to follow and walk with him. What does Abraham’s call teach us about our own discipleship?

What does the story of Babel teach us about sin and how it operates? Babel is a blueprint for understanding how sin will institutionalize and organize itself into systems of corruption and rebellion against God. Babel gives us a lens to see the power structures in our world and mankind’s attempts to regain what was lost in the Garden.

The Story of Noah is one we may not have thought about since childhood. Perhaps it almost feels like something more akin to the fables of Aesop or the tales of the Brothers Grimm? Let us consider together what God desires to show us through this violent but beautiful story.

God accepts the sacrifice of Abel, but he had no regard for Cain’s sacrifice. Why is it that God accepted one but not the other? Then when Cain murdered Abel, why was God so merciful to Cain?

The fall of mankind is at the heart of what is wrong with the world and how sin fractured everything. But we also see God introduce pain into the lives of Adam and Eve in the most meaningful places of their lives. The very things they were born to do are now painful, yet this is exactly where God will meet his people throughout the rest of the Story.

The story of Creation is where we see the goodness of God, his power, and the beautiful world that he created. He’s the God who brings order to the chaos. He brings for beauty and life and blesses it. Creation tips God’s hand and shows his purposes for life and blessing.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers of darkness. Often we flip this verse and operate as though our enemy is flesh and blood. When that happens we misidentify who the enemy is and grasp at earthly power instead of heavenly power. Paul teaches us to see our real enemy so that we might participate in the real war.

Perambulation? God is calling us to walk as children of light. The Christian faith is one that reorients the whole of our lives towards God and his kingdom purposes.

The "Old Man" vs the "New Man" is a theme that runs throughout the Paul’s writings. The old man is a slave to sin after our first father Adam. But the new man is alive in Christ and being conformed to his image. We are being transformed so that our mouth, hands, and heart personify the love of God to the world.