The Ultimate Public Speaking Assignment, Part 2

Hey everyone! Last week I started writing an article on Moses' burning bush experience, but had so much fun with just the first few verses of Exodus 3, I quickly decided to turn it in to a series!

As you may remember, last time I concluded with discussing how when God called Moses from within the burning bush, Moses listened to God and replied,

"Here I am".

Today, I shall continue the story; let's pick up with (Exodus 3) verse five. In summary, this is where God tells Moses to take off his sandals because it is holy ground. Moses does so, and God then brings him up to speed:

"The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”"--verses 7-10

What? What did God just tell Moses to do? That's a big job. Yeah, that was exactly what Moses himself was thinking:

"Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"--verse 11

The Ultimate Public Speaking Assignment, Part 1

Hey everyone!

Wow, it's been a long time.

I really did mean to keep blogging, but after Christmas time...well, let's just say that college demands your attention and at times, to succeed in college, you can't do much else! But, the school year is over, God helped me get A's and B's in my classes (yay!) and now it is summertime. Time for more blogging, hopefully. :)

I'm certainly not laying back and being lazy this summer, however. Over the summer I'm taking three classes, this month's class being Intro to Public Speaking. Hold that thought...

Last night our family was having evening worship, and one of the memory verses that my eight-year-old sister Alison needed to review was Exodus 4:12--

"Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."

This verse comes in a dialogue between God and Moses at the burning bush, when God is trying to convince/tell Moses to go rescue the enslaved Israelites in Egypt. Let's take a look at this passage, and see what we can learn!