Author Archives: Andrew Gillham

Interpreting Bible stories can be challenging. The author simply tells the story and doesn’t tell you what its relevance might be for future generations. The crossing of the Red Sea was an unforgettable event for those who were there, but what might it be saying to us?

Pharaoh did not listen to God, through Moses and Aaron approaching him and saying ‘Let my people go’.God had sent warnings to Pharaoh of the consequences of not obeying a simple instruction – there were already nine plagues that had grown in severity and destruction, and the tenth plague bought a warning of death.

Colin Gale reflects on how the first of the ten plagues of Egypt hints at the truth that God alone can bring great good out of the darkest horror. Let me start by wishing all fathers a Happy Fathers’ Day! I have been a father for twenty-four years, but today is the first Fathers’ DayContinue reading “There will be Blood (Exodus 7:1-24)”

We look at Moses encounter on Holy Ground and explore how through our worship God reveals more about himself, calls us to obedience in our daily lives and assures us that he is always with us.

What is baptism all about? Why the symbolism of water? The New Testament points back to some Old Testament stories to help us understand. In this talk we consider the story of Moses in a basket in the Nile.