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Looking Out from the Mountain Top

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 5 p.m.

This Sunday, the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, we will continue our sermon series on the Book of Deuteronomy. The series is entitled Words for People on the Border.  

The text we will explore is Deuteronomy 3:21-29; a passage in which God commands Moses to climb to the top of Mt. Pisgah and look out over the land to the East, West, North, and South. God tells Moses to take a good long look because he will not be able to cross over and enter that good land. Rather, Moses should commission, strengthen, and encourage Joshua, for Joshua would be the one to lead the people into the Promised Land.

Seeing and Looking are central commands in the Book of Deuteronomy. And yet, we often struggle to be still and truly see the world, the people, and the land around us. When we climb to the top of mountain tops, sky scrapers, or significant life events what do we see when we look out? How does the seeing help us to cross over? What do we do when God says, "stay behind?"

Loop Church is part of the Christian Reformed Church of North America and worships in Chicago, IL at 410 S. Michigan Ave. in the Fine Arts Building.