a Church Podcast

We are invited once again to gather around the table for communion or the Lord’s Supper.  It’s a place to be fed and refreshed.  A place where we’re reminded that we’re not alone.  It’s a place where we remember our stories and find them connected to Jesus’s way of love and grace.  In a similar way, our journey in the book of Numbers this week will include a shared meal of remembrance.  A meal of...

After 400 years of slavery in Egypt, the people didn’t really know God all that well.  So, like any of us, they carried their past experiences and ideas about the gods from their culture into their new relationship with God. This is perhaps why we will see God portrayed at times as dangerous, violent and oppressive.  And yet, as God remains faithful and present, there are hints and glimpses that w...

It was a bit like a whirlwind romance.  All that excitement and adrenaline followed by, "Wait, who are you again?"  After 400 years of slavery, God's rescue was all kinds of exciting, followed by a Vegas-like elopment in the desert.  But then they had to figure out how to live together and truth be told, the people didn't really know God all that well.  This is one of the best...