Throughout Lent, we are inviting our extended church community to do art (of any kind) based on the Sunday texts. Our first text is Exodus 1 for this coming Sunday (pre-Lent, since Lent actually begins on Ash Wednesday). Each week we will put the community-crafted art on the PowerPoint for a period of silent reflection on that day's text.
Here are some of the art pieces we have so far. (For the sake of freedom of expression, we are withholding the names of the artists.)
Here's a nice overview piece with a summary of the chapter embedded.
8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us.
17 But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.
18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you allowed the boys to live?”
19 “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women,” the midwives replied. “They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time.”
20 So God was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.”
(We decided the above piece was too graphic to use in a worship service. However, I think it's OK to share it here.)
We also had one poetic entry.
1:12b-13 And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves
SLAVE PRINCE
Back-broken slave, how came you here?
Born to freedom, born to reign.
It's not his power, but his fear
That forged your master's chain.
Here are some of the art pieces we have so far. (For the sake of freedom of expression, we are withholding the names of the artists.)
Here's a nice overview piece with a summary of the chapter embedded.
8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us.
17 But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king’s orders. They allowed the boys to live, too.
18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. “Why have you done this?” he demanded. “Why have you allowed the boys to live?”
19 “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women,” the midwives replied. “They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time.”
20 So God was good to the midwives, and the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.”
We also had one poetic entry.
1:12b-13 And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves
SLAVE PRINCE
Back-broken slave, how came you here?
Born to freedom, born to reign.
It's not his power, but his fear
That forged your master's chain.
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