Current Sermon Series at St. Stephen’s :Unraveled

“Unraveled: Seeking God When Our Plans Fall Apart”

Through the series, “Unraveled,” St. Stephen’s will examine such questions as: What happens when our world falls apart? How do we press onward when our tightly-knit plans unravel into loose threads? What do we become when our identity—or the path we’re on—comes undone? 

Connect with this Sunday’s Scripture

The worship series “Unraveled” continues this Sunday, August 16, with the text  Exodus 1:22, 2:1-10 NRSV

(see full text of scripture below)

Prepare for Sunday worship by reading and studying the text and considering the following guiding questions: 

• What has unraveled and/or is unraveling in this text?
• What are the results of the unraveling?
• How is God working in the midst of the unraveling?
• What might we glean from this story of unraveling?

In our unraveling, sometimes life surprises us with unexpected joy, love, and hope—with a new beginning we could not have imagined! Sometimes we need God to unravel us, for we long to be changed.

To preview our Aug. 23 scripture and sermon, please visit Sunday, Aug. 23.

This worship series explores stories of unraveled shame, identity, fear, grief, dreams, and expectations. In the biblical story, we will find real world intersections with our contemporary unraveling due to the various pandemics we are facing, and we will examine stories where God meets us in the spiraling, unraveling our plans—and us—into something new.

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Scripture Reading : August 16th Online Service at St. Stephen’s

Exodus 1:22, 2:1-10 NRSV

Exodus 1:22

22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every boy that is born to the Hebrewsa]”>[a] you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live.”

Exodus 2:1-10

Birth and Youth of Moses

2 Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. 4 His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.

5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. “This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,” she said. 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed it. 10 When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses,a]”>[a] “because,” she said, “I drew him outb]”>[b] of the water.”