Exod 15:13-21 When my husband and I go on holiday, we usually let our neighbours know that we’ll be away and sometimes ask them to put our bins out on the appropriate day. Their response is always, ‘Consider it done!’…

Exod 15:1-12 Do you have a favourite Christian song or hymn? I remember in my gap year spent overseas, a friend introduced me to Michael Card songs and ‘That’s what faith must be’ became one of my favourites. Whenever it…

Exod 14:15-31 God’s address to Moses, ‘Why are you crying out to Me?’, sounds surprisingly accusatory. Surely it is not wrong for Moses to seek God’s help! Perhaps, his reassurance to the people is short-lived and he, too, needs encouragement.…

Exod 14:13-14 Israel’s complaints at the end of our last reading (Exod 14:11-12) are the wild accusations of a slave people who were not in control of their lives and so had learnt a mentality of not taking responsibility for…

Exod 14:1-12 Having avoided the coastal route where Israel might have encountered heavy military opposition, God now seems to manoeuvre His people deliberately into a corner. By doubling back on their tracks towards Egypt, they give Pharaoh the impression that…

Exod 13:17-22 Have you ever looked at your life in retrospect and wished you could have arrived where you are earlier? I know I have. Whenever I think of the recent change I have made in becoming freelance, I remember…

Exod 13:1-16 Due to the Covid lockdown this year, many celebrated ANZAC day in April by standing at dawn at the end of their driveway or at their letterbox to remember those who have given their lives for the country…

Exod 12:43-51 A missionary couple serving in South America lost their daughter at a young age there. Medical care was such that once she fell ill, she could not be saved. It was particularly heart-rending knowing that had she received…

Exod 12:29-41 As C.S. Lewis famously said, pain is God’s megaphone and, on the night when the firstborns died, God shouted His wake-up call into Pharaoh’s ears. How sad that it took him the deaths of thousands, including his own…

Exod 12:21-28 When I came to faith as a teenager, I struggled to understand the logic of the cross intellectually and, as a result, wondered if I were truly a Christian. It took me years to realise that no one…