Category: Devotionals

Devotionals

Who Is God?

Read: Exodus 3:13-15 What is his name? (v. 13) In 24 years of leading churches, I hired many staff. The best hires went through a stated process. If anyone approached

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Identity Equals Destiny

Read: Exodus 3:11-12 Who am I? (v. 11) Moses did not know who he was. Moses responded to God’s assignment with a question that reveals his insecurity: “Who am I?

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The Big Ask

Read: Exodus 3:7-10 I will send you . . . (v. 10) God’s mission is stunning, his call is daunting, and his task towers over our lives, but for some

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Holy Ground

Read: Exodus 3:1-6 Turn aside to see . . . (v. 3) Moses’s call is all rather dramatic, but it’s also ordinary. It could have been any other day. Just

The Darkest Hour

Read: Exodus 2:16-25 God remembered . . . (v. 24) God remembers us in our suffering, even when we feel forgotten. I saw suffering firsthand in the alleys that weave

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When We Sin

Read: Exodus 2:11-15 He struck down the Egyptian. (v. 12) We cannot undo the wrong we did. We try to hide and cover up. We certainly relate to Moses hiding

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In Pharaoh’s House

Read: Exodus 2:10 He became her son. (v. 10) Our experiences shape our lives in ways we cannot always know. The God who “knitted me together in my mother’s womb”

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Down in the Weeds

Read: Exodus 2:4-9 Shall I go and call you a nurse? (v. 7) Two girls down in the weeds: one a slave, one a princess. Two girls down in the

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Who Saw You?

Read: Exodus 2:1-3 She saw that he was a fine child. (v. 2) Behind the big, defining moments of our lives stand thousands of little moments. The burning bush of