One item that is important on the agenda of God is that of order. Countless examples in scripture demonstrate the order that God used in both creating and maintaining our world. Are your steps ordered by the Lord? Psalms 37:23. Reading the first chapter of Genesis, we can see an orderliness in the manner in which God proceeded from one creative act to the other. When we think of the Exodus, Moses led over a 600,000 people out of Egypt, not counting women and children. They marched in orderly ranks. “So God led the people around by the way of ...

Image by Christopher Chan via Flickr By any definition, Moses' life was a tremendous success. Success leaves footprints for others to follow. While many examples from Moses could be chosen, for our purposes, we will select three. Before we examine them, let's take a look at some of the factors in Moses background to show that one can succeed in spit of many obstacles. Moses was born into slavery. He then became a basket case, being placed in the Nile River. He lost his job of being prince of Egypt, became a fugitive after murdering an Egyptian for ...

Some 30 years ago, my wife and our youngest daughter were playing in our backyard. It was a rather large back yard, and one of the features that sold us on the house. We we looking for plenty of room for our three children to play without wandering into the streets. Then one afternoon, while playing in the backyard, we heard this loud boom from what sounded like an explosion. The next thing we saw was a ball of fire and objects falling from the sky. Our daughter terrified with fear, began to cry. While my wife’s motherly instinct overcame my curiosity of what had happened, she ran straight for my daughter, ...