You may have never heard of the two most heroic people in the bible. Their names are Shiprah and Puah. Two African women. Two Hebrew midwives. Two enslaved freedom fighters. Two incredible theologians. When tyranny

God answered their prayers, sent a deliverer and brought an empire to its knees. Now, just “as the Lord commanded,” these 3 million people are on a journey from slavery to freedom. But, to get to the promised land, you have to navigate

To grow up in Christ takes curiosity. Moses was a felon on the run from Egypt. But now, he’s a husband, father and gainfully employed in his father-in-law’s livestock business. Life is good. That’s when everything changed.

The order we share is not meant to oppress but to help maximize wisdom and joy and minimize pain and grief. Love is a system of order.

Spiritual maturity has an answer for the question, “is God among us?, even when God’s timeline challenges us. It would’ve been great that day if someone in the crowd would have blurted out, ‘If God was able to defeat an empire, surely God can provide bread and water!’

This weekend we honor laborers. Those whose efforts produce fruit that benefit us all. Seems like a good time also to define labor for those who follow Jesus.

Moses is raised in the house that slave labor built only to return as an adult to tear the whole system down. Empire can’t build anything that can withstand love’s eventual tear down.