Reading Exodus 38, I’m struck by the phrases they built…they made…they cast. They are following the directions Moses received from God to build the tabernacle and all the things needed for them to offer sacrifices and offerings – burnt offerings, grain offerings, sin offerings, trespass offerings. Why? God is holy and we are not. We…

Can you imagine how beautiful the Ark of the Covenant was? Exodus 37 describes its’ dimensions and how it was made. I keep thinking about how Bezalel, the craftsman chosen by God to build and oversee the making of everything, worked. As an artist, if I see something I have a better chance of painting…

In Exodus 36 the people gave so much…And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning. v. 3. Can you imagine the joy and excitement in being able to work with God in this wonderful endeavor? They brought so much it was more than enough! Recently my husband and I were able to…

I love to imagine what this part must have been like as I read Exodus 35. Where before we were standing at the entrance to our own tents watching as Moses entered the tent outside the camp and God’s Presence was there like a cloud…and seeing that when Moses emerges from that tent his face…

Yesterday I read in the AP about a movement in this country that is calling for a renewal but that is based in hate. Hate for the other side, hate for foreigners coming to this land, hate for anyone not “of us” and people were being baptized into this hate “in the name of god”.…

Can you imagine what it was like in the camp after the awful events of the last Chapter? So quiet. You emerge from your tent when you hear the people stirring from theirs. Moses is moving to the tent he has set up outside the camp where he can meet with the Lord. He goes…

We come in Exodus 32 to a truly cringe-worthy chapter. When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know…

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills – to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver…

I’m always amazed, though I shouldn’t be, at what I find new in Scripture. Exodus 30 describes the altar of acacia wood for burning incense, and not just any incense, but fragrant spices – gum resin, onycha and galbanum – and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts, and make a fragrant blend of incense, the…

The heading before Exodus 29 is Consecration of the Priests. I looked that up. To make or declare sacred especially: to devote irrevocably to the worship of God by a solemn ceremony. Aaron and his sons are before the Lord and the assembly. “This is what you are to do to consecrate them, so they…