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The Book of Exodus is an adventure, a divine mystery, a recapitulation of salvation history, a tragic account of fall and redemption. Above all it is a love story between God and humanity. While this study is not a verse-by-verse on Exodus, it focuses on ten salient points of the book: 01. The Election of Moses as a prophet for his people 02. The revelation of the Holy Name of the Lord 03. The Ten Plagues of Egypt 04. The flight into the wilderness 05. The Israelites reaction after they had left the fertile land of Goshen 06. The Giving of the Ten Commandments 07. The Golden Calf 08. The ...

In this episode, we reflect on two powerful truths at the core of our faith—grace and mercy. Grace is when God gives us blessings we don’t deserve, and mercy is when He withholds the punishment we do deserve. Through the stories of the Israelites, St. Paul, and the woman caught in adultery, we are reminded of how deeply God loves us—not because we are perfect, but because He is. Tune in for a heartfelt reminder that no matter where you've been or what you've done, God's grace and mercy are always reaching out to you.

For Jesus, truth and mercy went hand in hand. Today we seem to have lost this powerful pattern of self-giving love, focusing on truth at the expense of mercy or on mercy at the expense of truth, and often failing to build genuine, lasting relationships with the people around us. In The God Impulse, Jack Alexander helps us recover Jesus's model, showing through biblical and modern real-life stories that God's first impulse toward us is mercy.