How's that working for you? Finding Joy in Work | Nathan Lawson

Reflection 2 | Week 3 | What You Cannot Bring

At Passover, God commands his people to clear every trace of yeast from their homes. Paul picks up that image and turns it inward: the sin and clutter we tolerate works like leaven, quietly spreading until it shapes the whole loaf. Clear it out, and we're freer to follow God wherever he leads.

Reflection 1 | Week 3 | The Lamb You Eat

Taken from Exodus 12:11-13, this reflection shows how the communion that we take as Christians is connected to the Passover meal. This meal was meant to point back to the moment of rescue, but also to give the Israelites strength for the journey ahead.

Reflection 2 | Week 2 | The Room That Forgot the Sun

Week 2, Reflection 2 explores Exodus 8:15 and the repeated hardening of Pharaoh’s heart to show how small, repeated refusals can turn into a settled resistance to God’s light. Through the image of a room that keeps its curtains closed, the episode explains how habits and neglect either open us to God’s light or let us grow comfortable in darkness, making clear that hardening is often gradual and self-made rather than sudden.

Dethroning the gods | Journey Up the Mountain [2 of 9] | Nathan Lawson

Pharaoh sneers, 'Who is Yahweh that I should obey him?' Over ten plagues, God answers, dismantling the gods of Egypt one by one. Nathan Lawson walks through the showdown and what it reveals about the God who refuses to be ignored.

Reflection 1 | Week 2 | More Bricks, More Problems

Week 2, Reflection 1: A study of Exodus 5:19–22. Using the Israelites’ story, a modern marriage example, and Gregory of Nyssa, the episode shows that increased pressure can be a sign that liberation is underway. To get your copy or learn more, visit www.northsidcc.org.