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Big Idea: Where can we go to get assistance that the "biggest god" is indeed the same God who is on our side? Jesus is the one who shows us what real power looks like -- the one on the side of the poor, the powerless, and the defeated, is the same one raised from the dead.

Big Idea: Every society needs to establish leadership characteristics, and we need to know the "good people" from the "bad people." But how? The Hebrew people summed p their leadership qualities as "a prophet like Moses." Someone like that could qualify as a person with integrity who could speak for God.

Big Idea: God's calling of people is persistent. Sometimes we will react immediately, but often it takes a lifetime to work it out, and when we respond, the results are not always what we can predict.

Big Idea: In the nexus between generations, the experienced have to let go of control while still offering the wisdom that the next generation will need to carry on. In God's wisdom, human beings survive in groups that are successful in passing along the things that make for the life of the community.