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Sermon for August 6th - Encountering God in Worship over Millennia

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  St George Cam & St Cyr Stinchcombe  August 6th 2023. Trinity 9. Part of a Sermon series on Worship in the Benefice.  Readings Exodus 33:12-23  -  Moses’ Intercession   12  Moses said to the  Lord , ‘See, you have said to me, “Bring up this people”; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, “I know you by name, and you have also found favour in my sight.”  13  Now if I have found favour in your sight, show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favour in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.’  14  He said, ‘My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.’  15  And he said to him, ‘If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from here.  16  For how shall it be known that I have found favour in your sight, I and your people, unless you go with us? In this way, we shall be distinct, I and your people, from every people on the face of the earth.’  17  The  Lord  said to Moses, ‘I will do the very thing that you