1. Just as God on “Eagles’ wings” miraculously provided manna and water and life by His Word to Israel in the desert, so Jesus gather’s His Church as a hen would to give of Himself like the pelican to us in our journey through life in this Pentecost season of the Church Year.
  2. Hosea also portrays God in a very intimate and husbandly way, reaching out to the one He loves when love is abused and lost.
  3. God, through the mystery of Trinity, is at work in the act of creation. Every person of the Trinity participated in creation.
  4. People live and move in story, and the effect of story is that it creates distance for them rhetorically which makes the hearer feel safe to explore and cared for by the preacher.
  5. What Moses suffered in a limited way Christ actually endured fully on our behalf!

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