“Good morning. This is the author of Exodus speaking. We interrupt our ongoing story of the deliverance of God’s people from slavery in Egypt for a brief genealogy of Moses and Aaron complete with names like Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.”

The action in Exodus doesn’t take any time to get rolling. Slavery. Oppression. Cries to God for help. A God who hears, remembers, sees, and knows. A deliverer emerges only to get sidelined for 40 years in exile. God’s voice from a burning bush. The redeemer is commissioned and equipped with supernatural signs and wonders and sent to Egypt to deliver his famous line, “Let my people go!”

And then we get a genealogy.

What’s going on here? You’ll have to join us Sunday to find out! We will be reassured by “the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy [that He dwells] in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite (Isaiah 57:15).” Which of us doesn’t need that?

Fred Sanders will be preaching from Exodus 6:14-7:7 and Kenny Clark will be leading us in sung worship. Would you pray for them this week as they prepare? And pray that we would have a fresh experience of this same reviving of spirit as we humble ourselves together before the High and Holy One.

See you Sunday, Grace. Come hungry!

His Glory Fills the Earth another “deep cut” (as they say) from Songs of Grace

Regard as holy the Lord Almighty
He is the One we ought to fear
His sanctuary is here among us
The God of heaven now revere
Holy, holy holy is the Lord almighty
Holy, holy, His glory fills the earth