tossing off the baggage that is pulling down on me
toss it in the river & be free A sermon from Mt. Sinai : Most of the time it strikes us as decidedly good news to hear that in Jesus Christ we’ve been adopted into the holy family of Israel… Well, today is no such day. We hear about the behavior of these Hebrews, and are tempted to protest, they’re not my kin! The trouble, though, is the behavior we hear about hits closer to home than we care to admit. This stiff-necked people’s conduct betrays a family resemblance, whether we admit it or not… And that isn’t all that’s unsettling, either. There’s also God’s behavior. God’s behavior that isn’t familiar whatsoever… In the scripture we watch as these two forces collide . The behavior of a people that’s more familiar than we care to admit, crashing into the behavior of God that’s completely unusual . To really catch the force of this impact, we have to walk back: God chooses Abraham to be the father of a chosen people. God will give tha...