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When the Story You're Living Starts to Devour You | Exodus 1
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Paul D. Anderson
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We all live by a story. Some give life. Others take it.
The book of Exodus isn’t just about an ancient people escaping Egypt. It’s about us. It’s about you.
It’s the story of being enslaved to a system that slowly grinds you down, the story of a God who shows up in the middle of it, and the story of discovering who you were always meant to be. It’s about realizing that the way out of slavery is also the way in—to freedom, identity, faith, and hope.
For thousands of years, people have turned to Exodus to make sense of their own lives. Maybe it’s time you did too.
“Your life has to mean something”
“Grizzly Man” & the stories we make up
Achievement was eating me alive.
Why Exodus? The story that makes sense of our stories
Genesis is like the Empire Strikes Back
Fruitful, multiplying—Eden echoes
A new king who “knew not Joseph”
Hyksos & “Hebrews”: why Egypt feared shepherds
Building Store Cities —Pithom, Raamses, Rekhmire
Anah: the sound of oppression
Militant fecundity (a.k.a. wombfare)
Shiphrah & Puah: fearing God, holy sarcasm, named by God
Into the Nile: state-sponsored horror
The Killing Fields: seeing the unthinkable
Step 1: You must admit you are powerless
“Everyone who sins is a slave”
Our only true hope... is to give up hope in ourselves.
From anah to freedom—an invitation