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Exodus is the story of God’s action in the world, how he took a group of slaves, set them free, and then formed them into a new community, one which would model his kingdom of justice and peace based on his rule.

Moses and the people of Israel are having a bad day. God is still God, even when it's a bad day.

Events might seem catastrophic, but God has not left the pitch - His plan will ultimately prevail.

Even kings and queens come and go, but Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

Many of us are unhappy because we’re fighting God at the point of his sovereignty. We’ve never surrendered our agenda to his control.

There are things in this world that cannot be in the new world that God is in the business of creating if that new world is to be all that he promised it will be. In God's kingdom of justice and joy there is no space for certain acts and attitudes, nor anyone who will not let go of them. Judgement must come before the kingdom can come.

Throughout the book of Revelation, the call of God’s people is to bear faithful witness to Jesus, even though it will mean suffering, and quite possibly a shameful death.

Revelation shows us, in vivid graphic detail, that the only way to understand the judgement of God is when we come to terms with how real and ugly evil is and what untold havoc and fear it causes in this good and beautiful world that God has made.

John in exile thinks about the churches under persecution back home and, when praying for them on the Lord's day, hears a voice behind him. God is bringing comfort to his people, the central vision of the Lord Jesus standing in majesty.