The Bible Year, Week 3 (January 28)
We are rapidly approaching the end of January and we are also approaching the end of our Exodus readings. We will read the final few chapters on Sunday, January 30. As I shared in my sermon last Sunday, the story of the Exodus is the single most important story in the Jewish faith and one of our most important stories as Christians, second only to the story of Jesus. The author of our Bible Year Devotional book, Magrey deVega, noted in a sermon that the Exodus is so significant that for the rest of our journey through the Bible, we're going to lose count of the number of times the authors of the books of the Bible refer back to this story of God freeing his people from slavery in Egypt through the waters, across the wilderness, and toward the promised land. The exodus forever shapes the consciousness of an entire faith. The exodus would forever remind the Israelites of who God was, who they were called to be, and what they were called to do. Several years ago, we studi...