This series by Duncan Parlett, a staff person with CRU in the States, first appeared in a longer format as a devotional series entitled From Genesis to Revelation on Cru.org. Feel free to consult this original series for additional reading suggestions and content.
We love or hate rules depending on whether they condemn us or justify us. When a law protects us, we heartily approve. When we break a law, we often resent it.
Movies often include hidden messages or inside jokes that attentive (and knowledgeable) viewers will pick up on. We call these “Easter eggs.” Similarly, God hides marvelous Easter eggs in his redemptive story.
God called an old humble shepherd, Moses, to a nearly impossible leadership task — forcefully removing about a million slaves from one of the most powerful nations on earth.