by afladmin | Apr 30, 2025
By: The Rev. Victor Lee Austin Before entering the promised land, Moses instructs the people to give thanks to God when they harvest the fruit of the land. This thanksgiving is to begin with “A wandering Aramean was my father,” and it is to include a...
by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Victor Lee Austin While Moses is speaking face to face with God, his own face is being transformed into a glowing brightness that the Israelites could not stand to look upon. Moses’ transfiguration is a type or anticipation of Jesus’ own...
by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Victor Lee Austin God tells Moses His name: I Am Who I Am. He is “the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” As the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, He has a history and narrative identity. But when...
by afladmin | Mar 19, 2025
By: The Rev. Victor Lee Austin The first sermon I ever preached was on this passage. It was my seminary CPE summer, at a hospital in Albuquerque, and I had but a few minutes. I began with Abraham as an old man with an old wife, a man who had received a promise from...
