“God gave first. Everything we offer is an answer.”
This is Five Promises, week five of five, the series finale, on Exodus 19:3-6 and 20:1-11. At Mount Sinai God speaks about what has already been done before asking Israel for anything, and the promise this week is gifts. It’s a sermon about money, and it starts with a rescue.
In the manuscript below:
A first lavender harvest, and why the plant needed every stem cut.
What the order at Sinai, rescue first and commandments second, means for where giving sits in a month.
The May evening on Aldersgate Street, ten years into John Wesley’s ordained ministry.
A three-step practice for giving that starts wherever you are right now.
