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"They were still booked for the Promised Land, but God had cancelled his reservations." Phil Ryken "True prayer does not seek-rather refuses-glory for selfTrue prayer is concerned for the Lord's good name." Alec Motyer "The request to see God's glory should be understood in this context as a desire to have God confirm his astonishing willingness to show his favor to a st...

PRAYING THE PASSAGE (Exodus 34:10-28): "This is what mercy looks like. God did the unthinkable. He pressed on with his plan.God's plan is tobring them outand thenbring them up. God's covenant points to a destination."Heavenly Father, help me to recall where I came from, and to recall that from which you have delivered me not for the purpose of guilt and condemnation, but...

"And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites." (Exodus 3:8) "In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Sp...

PRAYING THE PASSAGE:Exodus 34:1-9 John Piper ". . . what was clearly at the heart of Moses' request was a longing to know the glory of God's character from which flowed the mercy that he had just been promised."Father, keep me from being satisfied with simply seeing what you do or receiving what you give. Please help me to see that what you do reveals who you are; and so...

Overview of Mercy From First to Last (Exodus 33:1-23):In Exodus 33, we behold the faithful God extending goodness and mercy to an unfaithful people. After the Israelites broke the second commandment, God announced that he would not go with them anymore and began meeting Moses in a small tent far outside of the camp. There, Moses offers a stunning prayer for the people base...

Overview of Sermon:Exodus 32:15-35In continuation from last week, Moses descends from the mountain, God's divine writing in hand, to discover with holy indignation the sin of God's chosen people. At the foot of the same mountain that Israel pledged their allegiance to God, laid shattered the commandments and covenant graciously extended to this Holy Nation by their perfect...

Things To Pray For In August By Dave Taylor on Aug 03, 2020 04:09 am Charles Spurgeon, in his book "The Power of Prayer in a Believers Life," recently quoted by Mark Prater, says the following, "Do not bring before God stinted petitions and narrow desires, but remember, as ...

"Whoever reads the Old Testament must struggle with the apparent brutality of God's judgment found there. For many this is as far as they read. They stumble over the violent passages we call the "hard sayings." Some people see these sayings as sufficient reason to reject Christianity out of hand. They seem ample reason to hold the Old Testament God in contemptSome even go ...

In addition to C.J.'s recent sermon series, Faithfulness in a Fractured World, below are resources that the pastors of SGCL commend to you. Race Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian (John Piper) Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race (J. Daniel Hays) Mission of the Church What is the Mission of the Church? (Kevin DeYoung Greg Gilbert) ...

Ex 32:1-14Overview of Sermon:Moses is on Mt Sinai receiving the instructions for the tabernacle in which God intends to dwell in the midst of his people. Waiting for Moses to return, the Israelites' impatience turns to rebellion as they complain to Aaron, demanding an idol to replace the missing Moses. God's wrath is stirred, but in his mercy he informs Moses of the loomin...