Garden City Church
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to the weekly audio podcast for Garden City Church in Pittsburgh, PA. You can find and listen to messages from our weekend worship gatherings here. It's our hope that these messages encourage you to know and love God more, and to live out your faith well in your local communities.
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Our Humble King
December 04, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBIn the second week of our Advent series, Julia Allan focuses on Luke 2:1-7 and the humble arrival of Jesus as a baby born to Joseph and Mary in the small town of Bethlehem. Our humble king isn’t born in a palace, but in alongside animals. Jesus isn’t wrapped in exquisite cloth after he’s born, born in regular swaddling cloths. He isn’t born into power or privilege, but into obscurity and poverty. In the humble arrival of Jesus we find a King who knows us and who is for us.
Sabbath Rest
November 20, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 36.5 MBMitch Young, a member of Garden City’s Servant’s Council, focuses on our need for sabbath and rest. As we move into the Advent season, posturing ourselves to experience Jesus in a new way in this season, we need to think differently about the pace of our lives and the fullness of our schedules. As we anticipate our Savior’s arrival this Advent, may we also know His rest.
The Greatest Commandment
October 20, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MBIn Mark 12:28-34 Jesus is confronted by a teacher of the law who asks Jesus, of the 613 laws and commands Jewish people were expected to keep, which law is the most important. Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Jesus’ response and teaches us that right belief doesn’t, in and of itself, lead to salvation. Right belief matched with right action is what Jesus requires of His people.
Jesus, Our Inclusive and Just Temple
October 04, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBThis, as we celebrated our one-year anniversary as a faith community, Pastor Dennis walked through Mark 11:11-17 (NIV). It's the story of Jesus entering the temple in Jerusalem and turning over tables. But, this story isn't really about Jesus confronting merchants for buying and selling in the temple. It's actually a story about the temple system and how it excluded people God wanted to include and how it exploited people God wanted to lift up. Together, we'll discover that Jesus becomes our...
Jesus and Bartimaeus
September 25, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBJesus and the disciples continue on the way to Jerusalem where Jesus encounters a blind man named Bartimaeus. Through this healing story Jesus continues to demonstrate to His followers the realities of spiritual blindness. This healing encounter is almost a plea from Jesus to His disciples for them to finally allow their eyes to be opened to what He's doing, to what His ministry is aimed toward, and how they will only be able to see once they recognize their blind. Pastor Shaq Hager walks us...
Wealth is a Liar
September 18, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MBPastor Dennis Allan teaches through the story known as "The Rich Young Ruler," as recorded in the Gospel of Mark. Jesus and His disciples are on their way to Jerusalem and Jesus is continuing to teach them the ways of the Kingdom. Jesus makes it clear - wealth makes it very difficult for a person to inherit eternal life as it pulls people away from dependence on Jesus and entices them to live for themselves instead of their neighbors. It's a clear and stark teaching that Christians in Americ...
A Slow Healing
August 29, 2022 13:00 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBThis week, Carrie Buckner walks us through Mark 8:22-26. Here, Mark records the story of Jesus healing a blind man. But this healing is different than other healing stories. This one takes time. It’s a slow healing, a healing that at first glance it appears Jesus needs two attempts at.. Even though it’s a slow healing, the person’s sight is restored. What is Jesus trying to teach us? How is this story supposed to speak to us today?
Jesus and His Abundant Kingdom
August 19, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBJulia Allan walks us through Mark 7:24-30 as we continue our study of the Gospel of Mark. Jesus, having retreated to an unlikely city - Tyre, is encountered by a Gentile woman who asks Him to heal her daughter. Jesus responds in a manner that to our modern ears and hearts sounds entirely unlike Jesus. In fact, it's a passage that Christians might want to skip over because it's difficult to explain Jesus' response. Julia helps uncover the ways that Jesus responds with kindness and gentleness ...
Jesus and Our Hearts
July 31, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBPastor Dennis Allan walks us through Mark 7:1-23 where Jesus is confronted by a group of Pharisees seeking to undersratnd why He and His disciples don't ahdere to the "tradition of the elders" when it comes to washing their hands before eating. Jesus replies with a stinging rebuke, revealing the ways that the Pharisees have created a vast and extensive religious system comrpised of laws God never spoke or initiated. Jesus challenges the Pharisees (and us) on what our hearts most value and ho...
Jesus and His Disciples (Part 2)
July 17, 2022 13:00 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBThis week, we pick-up right where we left off the week before. Pastor Dennis leads us through Mark 6:6b-13, the story of Jesus sending twelve of His disciples on their first missionary journey. This is the first time we see Jesus sending out some of His disciples on their own to extend and expand His ministry by going to the places Jesus has already gone and teaching and healing people. Through this passage we discover four ways that we are to live out Jesus' Kingdom mission in the world: kn...
Jesus and His Disciples (Part 1)
July 17, 2022 13:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Gospel of Mark by leading a conversation on Mark 6:1-6a. Jesus returns to His hometown with His disciples, but rather than receiving a warm welcome, He is met with rejection and opposition, so much so that the people try to kill Jesus. Through the story we learn what it means to be a disciple: we spend time with Jesus, we learn His teaching, we take on Jesus' ways and character, and we live out His Kingdom mission.
Jesus and Legion
July 17, 2022 12:45 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBThis week we hear from Reverend Eleanor Williams, founder of the North Side Partnership Project and a long-time minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church, as we continue our series on the Gospel of Mark. Rev. Eleanor walks us through the story of Jesus encountering a man possessed by a legion of demons and what it means for us to know that God is powerful over the spiritual realm.
Jesus and the Sabbath
July 17, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBThis week, Amanda Wagner walks us through two passages, one located in Mark 2 and the other in Mark 3. Both passages focus on Jesus and the Sabbath. By the religious standards of the day Jesus is disobeying Jewish Sabbath law. He and His disciples have picked food and Jesus has healed a person, both on the Sabbath. In these stories we see the way that Jesus comes as the fulfillment and perfection of the Old Testament law, helping to redefine and reshape it for His disciples (and us) to bette...
Jesus' Inclusive Community
June 05, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBPastor Dennis Allan walks us through Mark 2:13-17 where we see Jesus invite Levi, a tax collector, to become one of His followers and we see Jesus attend a party at Levi's house filled with "tax collectors and sinners." Levi is reviled in Jewish religious culture and "tax collectors and sinners" are known to be wicked, intentionally choosing to exist well outside acceptable Jewish society. And yet Jesus invites Levi to follow Him in front of a large crowd and Jesus intimately engages with th...
Jesus' Discipline of Prayer
May 29, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBAmanda Wagner walks through a story recorded in Mark 1:35-39. It's the story of Jesus, whose days are filled with people in need coming to Him and begging for help, intentionally withdrawing to pray. Immediately before this story Jesus heals many people and immediately following it Jesus heals a person with leprosy. Everywhere Jesus goes crowds form around Him. It would be so easy for Him to simply remain where He is and tend to the need in front of Him. But, as He withdraws to pray, He disc...
Jesus and Authority
May 09, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutes - 39.8 MBPastor Shaq Hager continues our series on the Gospel of Mark by focusing on Mark 1:21-28. Jesus enters a synagogue and teaches with authority, astonishing the people. A demon, possessing a person who attends the synagogue, confronts Jesus. Jesus responds to the demon by casting it out of the person and, symbolically, the synagogue. It's a story that helps us understand Jesus and authority. We'll see that Jesus is authoritative, that He challenges and deconstructs manmade and religious autho...
Jesus the Messiah
April 28, 2022 22:30 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBThis week we begin our series on the Gospel of Mark. Pastor Dennis walks us through Mark 1:1-13, with a particular emphasis on the first verse of Mark's Gospel. At the time Mark was writing his gospel, the Roman empire was experiencing significant turmoil. Four emperors had risen to power in one year. The fourth, who would rule for a decade, a man named Vespasion, launched a propaganda campaign in an attempt to convice the populace that he was the Messiah. Mark is writing to push back on Ves...
Easter on the Emmaus Road
April 17, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBIt's on the Emmaus Road that the ressurected Jesus encounters two of His followers. They're confused, disillusioned, even sorrowful. They had believed that Jesus was going to be the Messiah. That's why they'd followed Him for three years. But now, all hope seemed lost. It's in that place that the resurrected Jesus met and walked with His followers, and it's where He meets and walks with us. In this story, found in Luke 24:13-35, we see the quiet power of the resurrection, how we can find hea...
God Leads Us Out to Pull Us In
April 04, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBIn the last week of our series on the Old Testament book of Exodus, Pastor Shaq focuses on the final verses of Exodus 40. As we look back across Exodus we see a God who liberates His people, leading them out of slavery and oppression, in order to pull His people into Himself. God sets His people free and then leads and loves His people, despite their sin and brokenness, as they learn to be God's children. Israel's story is our story, and the hope that God's people discover is still true today.
Pursuing God's Presence
March 22, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBThis week, Julia Allan walks through Exodus 33. After confronting the Israelites over the golden calf, Moses returns to the mountain to meet with God. There, Moses pleads with God to extend grace and mercy to the Israelites and not remove His presence from the midst of His people. Moses understands that it's God's presence dwelling among the Israelites that makes them a light to the world. The same is true for us today, both as individuals and as the church. We need to pursue God's presence ...
Knowing God
March 14, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBIn Exodus 32 the Israelite people demand that Aaron build for them a golden calf. It's a brazen act of disobedience, as the Isrealite people break the first and second commandments. Pastor Dennis Allan walks us through the story, placing it within the larger context of the book of Exodus, demonstrating that it's the Israelites' lack of relationship with God that leads them to demand an idol. For us today, a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus is the remedy to our idolatry.
God Gives the Spirit
March 07, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBIn Exodus 31 God gives His Spirit to an artisan for the work of creating the tabernacle. Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through the implications of God giving His Spirit to one person, foreshadowing the day that God would give His Spirit to all of His people. While we might not be artisans or craftsmen, every one of us is purposed by God to create. Whether as teachers or accountants, doctors or nurses, counselors or analysts, no matter our vocation we're to create beautiful things.
God as a Consuming Fire
February 21, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBAmanda Wagner teaches through Exodus 24. It's here that God renews the covenant with the Israelite people. Toward the end of the chapter the Israelite people look up to the top of the mountain and there they see God. They describe Him as a consuming fire. And yet, what this passage teaches us is that we, as God's people, can enter into His presence and not be consumed.
Exodus 23 - God Prepares Our Home (Pastor Shaq Hager)
February 15, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBThis week, Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Exodus 23:20-33. Here we find God speaking to His people about an angel He'll send to lead them into the Promised Land, the home that God is preparing for His people. Pastor Shaq helps us see that the Promised Land foreshadows our eternal home and the angel of the Lord foreshadows our one, true Savior, Jesus. Join us as we continue our study of the Old Testament book Exodus.
God Prepares Our Home
February 15, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBThis week, Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Exodus 23:20-33. Here we find God speaking to His people about an angel He'll send to lead them into the Promised Land, the home that God is preparing for His people. Pastor Shaq helps us see that the Promised Land foreshadows our eternal home and the angel of the Lord foreshadows our one, true Savior, Jesus. Join us as we continue our study of the Old Testament book Exodus.
Exodus 20 - God's Commands (Pastor Dennis Allan)
February 11, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBWe've come to Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments, in our study of the Old Testament book, Exodus. Pastor Dennis walks us through God's commands and instead of trying to make sense of each individual command and what it might mean for us today, we talk about what the context of the Commandments teaches us about God's character and what God's purpose was in giving the Commandments to His people. Together, we learn that the Commandments are an extension and outgrowth of God's profligate love for Hi...
God's Commands
February 11, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBWe've come to Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments, in our study of the Old Testament book, Exodus. Pastor Dennis Allan walks us through God's commands and instead of trying to make sense of each individual command and what it might mean for us today, we talk about what the context of the Commandments teaches us about God's character and what God's purpose was in giving the Commandments to His people. Together, we learn that the Commandments are an extension and outgrowth of God's profligate love...
Exodus 19 - A Good God (Pastor Shaq Hager)
January 31, 2022 14:30 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBWe continue our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. This week, Pastor Shag Hager walks us through Exodus 19. The Israelites arrive at Mt. Sinai. Through this passage, Pastor Shaq reminds us that God reassures His people of His goodness and presence, even in the midst of their brokenness. And, as God is unchanging in His character, we can know that He is good to us, too, even in the midst of our brokenness.
A Good God
January 31, 2022 13:30 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBWe continue our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. This week, Pastor Shag Hager walks us through Exodus 19. The Israelites arrive at Mt. Sinai. Through this passage, Pastor Shaq reminds us that God reassures His people of His goodness and presence, even in the midst of their brokenness. And, as God is unchanging in His character, we can know that He is good to us, too, even in the midst of our brokenness.
Exodus 17 - The God Who Defends (Pastor Dennis Allan)
January 26, 2022 05:45 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBThis week, Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book Exodus, focusing on the story in Exodus 17:8-16 of the Amelekites attacking the Israelites and Moses standing on a hill, with Aaron and Hur helping to hold up Moses' hands, as the Israelite army, lead by Joshua, defeats the Amelekites. Through this story we see the way that God's defends and protects His people, how He will not allow His work of redemption to be stopped, and how we can rest in God knowing that He'll...
The God Who Defends
January 26, 2022 04:45 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBThis week, Pastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book Exodus, focusing on the story in Exodus 17:8-16 of the Amelekites attacking the Israelites and Moses standing on a hill, with Aaron and Hur helping to hold up Moses' hands, as the Israelite army, lead by Joshua, defeats the Amelekites. Through this story we see the way that God's defends and protects His people, how He will not allow His work of redemption to be stopped, and how we can rest in God knowing that He'l...
Exodus 16 - The God Who Heals our Trauma (Pastor Shaq Hager)
January 18, 2022 13:30 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBThis week Pastor Shaq Hager talks through how the God who personally reveals Himself to Moses, sets the Israelites free from slavery, and delivers the Israelites through the Red Sea is also the God who meets us in our trauma and heals it. In Exodus 16 the Israelites are on the other side of the Red Sea and entering their freedom. But, the trauma they endured as a people over 400 years of systemic oppression makes it difficult to trust that God will provide for them, even though He worked to m...
God Heals our Trauma
January 18, 2022 12:30 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBThis week Pastor Shaq Hager talks through how the God who personally reveals Himself to Moses, sets the Israelites free from slavery, and delivers the Israelites through the Red Sea is also the God who meets us in our trauma and heals it. In Exodus 16 the Israelites are on the other side of the Red Sea and entering their freedom. But, the trauma they endured as a people over 400 years of systemic oppression makes it difficult to trust that God will provide for them, even though He worked to ...
Exodus 14 - The God Who Sets Us Free (Amanda Wagner)
January 09, 2022 23:30 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBThis week we resume our series on the Old Testament book Exodus. Amanda Wagner walks us through Exodus 14, the story of the Israelites after being set free from slavery and oppression in Egypt, crossing the Red Sea. It's a story of God rescuing His people again, a story of the way that God is at work in the lives of His people, and evidence of God's supernatural capabilities and power. It's also further evidence of God's desire to liberate and deliver His people, whether thousands of years ag...
God Sets Us Free
January 09, 2022 22:30 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBThis week we resume our series on the Old Testament book Exodus. Amanda Wagner walks us through Exodus 14, the story of the Israelites after being set free from slavery and oppression in Egypt, crossing the Red Sea. It's a story of God rescuing His people again, a story of the way that God is at work in the lives of His people, and evidence of God's supernatural capabilities and power. It's also further evidence of God's desire to liberate and deliver His people, whether thousands of years a...
Advent 2021 - Awaiting the Savior of New Life (Pastor Shaq Hager)
December 20, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBThis week, Pastor Shaq Hager, as part of our Advent series, walks us through Matthew 3. It's the story of John the Baptist who has come to baptize people in the Jordan River, clearing the path for Jesus to begin His public ministry. People from all over the region of Judea and even some people from the city of Jerusalem, who had been deeply troubled by the birth of Jesus, come to John to repent of their sins and to step into a new way of life. This Advent, we anticipate the arrival of a Savio...
Awaiting the Savior of New Life
December 20, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBThis week, Pastor Shaq Hager, as part of our Advent series, walks us through Matthew 3. It's the story of John the Baptist who has come to baptize people in the Jordan River, clearing the path for Jesus to begin His public ministry. People from all over the region of Judea and even some people from the city of Jerusalem, who had been deeply troubled by the birth of Jesus, come to John to repent of their sins and to step into a new way of life. This Advent, we anticipate the arrival of a Savi...
Advent 2021 - Awaiting the Savior of the New Exodus (Pastor Dennis Allan)
December 12, 2021 20:30 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBThis is the third week of our Advent series and Pastor Dennis Allan walks through Matthew 2. Magi arrive in Judea and go to the palace in Jerusalem to inquire about the birth of the new king, a new king that he will try to kill, forcing Joseph to flee in the middle of the night with his family to Egypt. At the end of chapter two, Joseph and his family return to the region and settle in Nazareth. It's in Matthew 2 that we discover that the Savior we await this Advent is a Savior who will chall...
Awaiting the Savior of the New Exodus
December 12, 2021 19:30 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBThis is the third week of our Advent series and Pastor Dennis Allan walks through Matthew 2. Magi arrive in Judea and go to the palace in Jerusalem to inquire about the birth of the new king, a new king that he will try to kill, forcing Joseph to flee in the middle of the night with his family to Egypt. At the end of chapter two, Joseph and his family return to the region and settle in Nazareth. It's in Matthew 2 that we discover that the Savior we await this Advent is a Savior who will chal...
Advent 2021 - Awaiting a Savior Who is God With Us (Pastor Shaq Hager)
December 07, 2021 14:00 - 27 minutes - 49.9 MBIn the second week of our Advent 2021 series, Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Matthew 1:18-25, the moment when an angel appears to Joseph and confirms that the child Mary is pregnant with is, in fact, "...from the Holy Spirit." It's as Joseph takes time to reflect that God, through an angel, meets with Joseph, comforts him, and speaks direction to him. For this child isn't any child. This child will save people from their sins. This child will be God with us.
Awaiting a Savior Who is God With Us
December 07, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 49.9 MBIn the second week of our Advent 2021 series, Pastor Shaq Hager walks us through Matthew 1:18-25, the moment when an angel appears to Joseph and confirms that the child Mary is pregnant with is, in fact, "...from the Holy Spirit." It's as Joseph takes time to reflect that God, through an angel, meets with Joseph, comforts him, and speaks direction to him. For this child isn't any child. This child will save people from their sins. This child will be God with us.
Advent 2021 - Awaiting a Savior for All People (Amanda Wagner)
November 29, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 54.4 MBThis week, Amanda Wagner begins our Advent series by looking at Matthew 1:1-17. These seventeen verses contain Matthew's version of Jesus' genealogy. It's so much more than just a list of names. It speaks to the kind of Savior Jesus will be. He will be a Savior who fulfills both a priestly and a kingly role. He will be a Savior for Jew and Gentile, for men and women, for the righteous and unrighteous. This Advent, we await the arrival of a Savior whose mercy and grace will be for every person.
Awaiting a Savior for All People
November 29, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 54.4 MBThis week, Amanda Wagner begins our Advent series by looking at Matthew 1:1-17. These seventeen verses contain Matthew's version of Jesus' genealogy. It's so much more than just a list of names. It speaks to the kind of Savior Jesus will be. He will be a Savior who fulfills both a priestly and a kingly role. He will be a Savior for Jew and Gentile, for men and women, for the righteous and unrighteous. This Advent, we await the arrival of a Savior whose mercy and grace will be for every person.
Exodus 12 - The God of Reparations (Pastor Dennis Allan)
November 23, 2021 14:00 - 41 minutes - 75.9 MBPastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. In Exodus 12:35-36 God plunders the Egyptian people who turn over their financial and material wealth to the Israelite people as they leave Egypt. It’s a staggering redistribution of wealth to a people group who had been oppressed and enslaved for hundreds of years. These verses create the framework for our conversation that starts in Exodus and then moves to Leviticus, Ezra, and the Gospel of Luke, all focused on the...
The God of Reparations
November 23, 2021 13:00 - 41 minutes - 75.9 MBPastor Dennis Allan continues our series on the Old Testament book, Exodus. In Exodus 12:35-36 God plunders the Egyptian people who turn over their financial and material wealth to the Israelite people as they leave Egypt. It’s a staggering redistribution of wealth to a people group who had been oppressed and enslaved for hundreds of years. These verses create the framework for our conversation that starts in Exodus and then moves to Leviticus, Ezra, and the Gospel of Luke, all focused on th...
Exodus 11-12 - The God of the Passover (Pastor Shaq Hager)
November 16, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutes - 60.6 MBPastor Shaq Hager discusses the tenth and final plague recorded in Exodus 11 and then the story of the Passover in Exodus 12. The story of the Passover is really the foreshadowed story of Jesus, our perfect Passover lamb. The deliverance of the Israelites from slavery and oppression in Egypt finds its ultimate fulfillment in the sacrificial death of Jesus, whose body and blood accomplish once and for all the liberation of all people who place their faith, hope, and trust in Jesus.
The God of the Passover
November 16, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 60.6 MBPastor Shaq Hager discusses the tenth and final plague recorded in Exodus 11 and then the story of the Passover in Exodus 12. The story of the Passover is really the foreshadowed story of Jesus, our perfect Passover lamb. The deliverance of the Israelites from slavery and oppression in Egypt finds its ultimate fulfillment in the sacrificial death of Jesus, whose body and blood accomplish once and for all the liberation of all people who place their faith, hope, and trust in Jesus.
Exodus 7-10 - If God is Present, He's at Work (Pastor Dennis Allan)
November 07, 2021 14:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBPastor Dennis Allan walks through the first nine plagues recorded in Exodus 7-10, following Pharaoh's hardening heart as a thread through the plagues narrative. In the New Testament book, James, the author quotes from Proverbs: "God opposes the proud, but favors the humble." These eight words become an interpretive lens to Pharaoh and God's response to his hard heart. Through it all, we see the ways in which God is sovereign and Pharaoh is not, and how, if God is sovereign, then He's present,...
God is at Work
November 07, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBPastor Dennis Allan walks through the first nine plagues recorded in Exodus 7-10, following Pharaoh's hardening heart as a thread through the plagues narrative. In the New Testament book, James, the author quotes from Proverbs: "God opposes the proud, but favors the humble." These eight words become an interpretive lens to Pharaoh and God's response to his hard heart. Through it all, we see the ways in which God is sovereign and Pharaoh is not, and how, if God is sovereign, then He's present...
Exodus 6 – Is God Worthy? (Pastor Shaq Hager)
November 01, 2021 14:00 - 28 minutes - 52.8 MBPastor Shaq Hager walks through Exodus 6 and the story of Moses confronting Pharaoh for the second time, all while having to deal with his own insecurities and doubts. Moses doubts his ability to represent God to Pharaoh and his ability to lead the Israelite people, who are unwilling to listen to Moses because of their own discouragement. For Moses and the Israelites, their ability to trust in God and believe His promises are rooted in His actions. And so far, God hasn't acted. Are we like Mo...