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Sunday, September 24, 2017 - What God's been up to

This sermon was preached at St. Aidan’s, San Francisco on Sunday, September 24, 2017. The texts for this sermon are: Exodus 16:2-15 , Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45 , Philippians 1:21-30 , and Matthew 20:1-16 . "Did you bring us here just to die?" The Israelites have been through a lot at this point in the Exodus story. They’ve watched as their old homeland, Egypt, descended into the chaos of terrible plagues all around them. They left behind everything except what they could carry on their backs. They’ve trusted in a prince turned prophet, a column of cloud, and a mysterious, splitting sea. And all that has landed the chosen people here, in the desert. Lost. Starving, and afraid. So they want to know. Did God put us through all that just to have us die? Maybe we should have stayed put, kept our heads down, and made ends meet the way we knew how. Not too long ago, I moved to live in the desert not far from where the Israelites were wandering. I had gone there on a research grant