Exodus 17.4-14

Patrick O'Connor
Pastor, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica
(Queens, NY)
Louisville Seminary Trustee

April 27, 2018
Exodus 17.4-14

What can we do best and how can we allow God's work and will to be done?  How can we work together in this time and place to further God's plan?
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Exodus 15

Amy Plantinga Pauw
Henry P. Mobley Jr. Professor of Doctrinal Theology

September 12, 2014
Exodus 15:1-15, 20-21

Liberation is only the beginning of the work to be done. Listen to the sermon.

When God Makes Things Worse: The Challenge of Faith in Tough Times

Lewis Brogdon

Director, Black Church Studies Program

Festival of Theology

May 1, 2011

Exodus 5:1-10, 20-23

This sermon explores how and why God makes things worse both for the children of Israel in Egypt and for the church today. In particular, the sermon challenges the church to draw upon the resources of faith to re-imagine our world and envision new ways to living together. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.

The Girl in the Reeds

Anna Carter Florence
Associate Professor of Preaching, Columbia Theological Seminary

Exodus 1:22, 2:1-10
March 4, 2008

The story of Moses and the bulrushes seen from the perspective of his sister and Pharaoh’s daughter can teach new lessons to both worshippers and preachers. Listen to the sermon. The text of this sermon is not available.

Reading for Freedom

Susan R. Garrett

Professor of New Testament

Exodus 32:1-4
Galatians 5:1
February 22, 2008

This service in celebration of African American History Month includes readings and songs exploring the relationship between the Bible, religion, and slavery. The sermon, beginning at minute 22 of the recording, contrasts the hermeneutic of slaveholders with that of the slaves who sang the spirituals, and argues that when our ways of interpreting scripture do not move God’s people forward on the way to freedom, they are moving us backward toward the idols we once served. We are then “submitting again to a yoke of slavery”—the very thing Paul warned us not to do (Gal. 5:1). Hearers are exhorted to preach as one who is free and who, like Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people, leads others out of bondage and into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Listen to the service. Read the sermon in PDF.

Batya, The Daughter of God

Patricia Kathleen Tull, A. B. Rhodes Professor of Old Testament

Batya, The Daughter of God

Mark 4:21-32 , Exodus 2:1-10
Oct. 27, 2006

The Pharaoh's daughter's immediate action to save the child she found in the reeds set in motion much larger liberation than she could have imagined. We never know how our mustard seeds of faithful action will grow. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF format.