Sunset Presbyterian Church Sermons

Acts 7: 17-38; Exodus 2:1-3:15 1. For the earliest months or years of Moses’ life, Moses was nursed by his own mother. What might she have prayed or sung or spoken over her child during those frequent and intimate encounters? 2. Moses grew up as a Hebrew in the court of the Egyptians. He was both an outsider to the Egyptians and an outsider to the Hebrews. How might this unique upbringing have molded Moses’ sense of self? 3. Read Acts 7:23-29. When Moses, in his forties, desired to encounter his own people, they did not welcome him. What do you think was going on in Moses’ heart as he fled to Midian? 4. Barbara remarked that this first time, Moses sent himself to save his people, while later God would send him to save his people. Have you ever rushed or forced a sense of calling? What was the result? 5. Moses spent forty years in Midian as a foreigner, humbly tending sheep in the desert. Though Moses might have thought he was lost or forgotten, Barbara pointed out that all along, he was acqu