Alva Baptist Church

Exodus 23 The Sabbath Year: God's Mercy on Man and Beast

We bow before the merciful God, who requires buffers in society to let the land rest, to provide for poor people.
God cares so much that we follow His instructions, that He establishes immutable consequences tied to these ideas.

Exodus 23 The Sabbath (again)

God brings-up repeatedly, the things that matter a great deal.
Jesus makes clear the significance of the Sabbath.
The wider counsel of the Word of God makes a more clear picture of what God thinks about a matter.

Exodus 23 The Three Great Feasts of Judaism

Moses refers to the priority of three feasts:
Passover
Feast of Harvest (Feast of Weeks or First Fruits)
Ingathering (Feast of Booths)

Exodus 23 The Closing Remarks Which Have Led to Kosher Laws

Leaven (yeast), fat, first of the harvest, meet and dairy...where do all these rules come from?
And what do they signify to us today in an age of grace?

Refugees Pt 1

What do you think the sin of Sodom was?
You might be surprised to learn what God thinks about the subject.

We propose that the answer leads us to consider refugees in our modern day.

Refugees Pt 2

As we consider the plight of the vulnerable people in our world, we look to past examples and learn how we might live today.

Refugees Pt 3

Who is my Neighbour?
How can I care for people suffering from fall-out of wars that I know nothing about?

Exodus 22 The absolute standard of holiness and commitment to God.

The absolute standard of Holiness and commitment to God.  

How the scriptures depicts holiness or 'diligence to follow God's direction.

Exodus 22 Justice Issues

Remedies to justice issues proposed by God in the book of Exodus.

Exodus 22 The problems of our world...

The problems of the world are ours, not His.  God is really there and He is not burdened by our tangles.  He presides over the raising-up of rulers. A God who sees, who hears, who comes to deliver, who brings His people through their trials.