Introduction to Exodus (Audio)
Exodus Chapter 3 Audio
Exodus Chapter 3 – Handout
March 17 – Deep Dive Handout and Video
March 24 – Deep Dive Handout and Video
March 31 – Deep Dive Handout, Questions, and Recording
Questions for Discussion
- Can we find purpose in the structure with which the plagues on Egypt are presented?
- What can we learn and model from Moses’ relationship with God through chapter 9?
- Why do you think Pharaoh hardens his heart to the Lord? What can we learn from this?
- Does God cause the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart? Or does God simply understand the human condition?
- What role does geography play in today’s readings?
- Does the plague on livestock echo any other passages we have studied?
- What do we make of the “Lord fearers” among Pharaoh’s people?
April 7 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions
Questions for Discussion
- Does the plague on livestock echo any other passages we have studied?
- What do we make of the “Lord fearers” among Pharaoh’s people?
- Is there a reason that we are just now beginning to see God “toughening” Pharaoh’s heart?
- How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
- Is there a pattern in Pharaoh’s negotiations that we can recognize in our own lives? How does one successfully negotiate with God?
April 14 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions
Questions for Discussion
- How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
- Is there a pattern in Pharaoh’s negotiations that we can recognize in our own lives? How does one successfully negotiate with God?
- What do we do with the horror of the death of the firstborns?
- What connections can we make from the role of “blood” in the early Exodus narratives?
- In the context of the exiles among whom this story was first written down, what does this story say about God? Can a story with so much death also be a story about hope?
April 21 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions
Questions for Discussion
- Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
- In the context of the exiles among whom this story was first written down, what does this story say about God? Can a story with so much death also be a story about hope?
- What is the importance of the specifics in the preparation of the Passover meal? Do we have any such traditions in our own lives?
- What do we do with the character of the “Destroyer”?
- What is the “motley throng” in 12:38? What implications does this have for us?
April 28 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions
Questions for Discussion
- Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
- What do we learn about “belonging” from the story of the Passover?
- What ways do we help people belong to our “tribe”?
- What things make us want to “go back” to that from which we’ve been freed?
- What do the two means of God’s presence tell us in this story about God? (pillar and column)
May 5 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions
Questions for Discussion
- Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
- How would this story be told differently from an Egyptian perspective?
- Has the nature of the Israelites (the gathered people) changed in this story thus far? If so, how?
- How do we see echoes of God’s goodness in our life today? (Like the “echo” of the waters being divided in the escape story and in the creation story).
- How do we keep marching, when sometimes God seems “behind” us instead of “in front” of us?
May 12 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions
Questions for Discussion
- Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
- How do we know that a large transition is taking place in this story of the Exodus?
- What can we learn from the idea that early Israelite writers were willing to concede that there were other gods, even if they paled in comparison to YHWH?
- Can we learn any “leadership” lessons from the “song of Moses” and what follows after?
- What are some ways that we are asked to show our trust of God in these days?
May 19 – Deep Dive Handout and Questions
Questions for Discussion
- Ongoing question – How do we reconcile the God who wants to show power with Jesus?
- What are some ways that we are asked to show our trust of God in these days?
- What does today’s story teach us about God’s provision?
- What does today’s story teach us about sabbath?
- What are ways do we show our obedience and teach others to do the same?
May 26 – Deep Dive Guiding Questions
Questions for Discussion
- What kind of faith would one need to have these days for others, like Paul, to have “heard of your faith”?
- Is there a difference between the fruit that is grown that faces the world and the fruit that grows among believers?
- What does it mean for “all things” to have been created through Christ?
- How can we remain steadfast in a healthy way?
- Are we call called to be servants of the gospel? In what ways?
June 2 – Deep Dive Guiding Questions
Questions for Discussion
- What does it look like for our hearts to be “encouraged and united in love”?
- How can we be aware of those ideas and people that try to take us “captive”? How can we be open and wary at the same time?
- What does being condemned “in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths” mean?
- What are the elemental spirits of the universe?
- What does authenticity look like? How can we know when someone is being authentic? How can we know when we are being authentic?
June 16 – Deep Dive