Sermon Illustrations for Proper 25 | Ordinary Time 30 (2017)
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
After responding to God’s call, after living into the call on his life to confront Pharaoh, after leading the people across the desert for 40 years, Moses finally stands on the mountain, Mount Nebo, and sees before him the promised land, the land God has promised to the children of Abraham and Isaac. That’s the good news. You have fulfilled your mission. Now the bad news. Moses, you will not lead the people into the promised land. You cannot go.