Lesley Ratcliff, as she prepares to become the senior pastor at UBC Hattiesburg, presents her Top Ten Northminster Moments

Richie Burnette—a Mississippi raconteur and storyteller, and Brooks Elfert’s father—presents “No Jesus, No Elvis.” This event explored often-overlooked Christian roots of American music, tracing the influence of the church on artists such as Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Faith Hill, and many others. Richie Burnette also shared share a few musical performances along the way.

We continue this morning through these weeks in the book of Exodus, tracing this journey that in so many ways is the creation story of God’s people and the prototype for the journey of faith, with each event or encounter in the physical world of the people illuminating some spiritual challenge or crisis that will feel familiar to all of us at some point. This is true even when we consider the length and direction of the journey itself.

FED Talks: Faith, Experience and Discovery, Night 2
Anna Katherine Scott, Brandon Evans-Clements, Bob Crisler, Rebecca Wiggs, and Jacob Moremen give short talks based on the prompt, “What I see differently now.”

Back in seminary I got involved with a program through the school that provided academic mentoring to students who were incarcerated and were working toward a college degree from behind bars.

It’s one of the classic scenes in American cinema, from Cecil B. DeMille’s blockbuster, The Ten Commandments. A young Charlton Heston playing Moses, standing upon the rock overlooking the seas, lifting his staff, declaring, “Behold, his mighty hand!” as the orchestra brass blares around him and the waters begin to churn and then part before him like a coat being unzipped, forming two enormous walls on either side as Israelites and Egyptians alike look on in awe and wonder.