Is time your tyrant? Or joyful reminder of God’s grace? Does the fleeting of time and the acceleration of years make you anxious? Or expectant? Listen as we examine Leviticus 23 and consider how the OT Feasts teach us to live thankfully and expectantly.
Category Archives: Sermons
07/14/2024 | “The Beauty of Holiness” | Leviticus 19:1-37
Holiness! What does the word evoke? Impossible demands? Hypocrisy? Nit-picking moralism? Or beauty, love, community, and grace? The Bible teaches that holiness is a gracious gift that teaches us to love God, love neighbors, and love strangers. Join us as we examine Leviticus 19 and consider the gift of holiness.
07/07/2024 | “Unstained” | Leviticus 18:1-6, 24-30
Are you stain-resistant? Leviticus 18 warns us of the staining power of relational sin and the importance of honoring the relational boundaries the Lord has established. Far from prudish legalism, God’s precepts teach us to walk in grace. Join us as we examine Leviticus 18 and consider the gracious boundaries God has established for our most intimate and precious relationships.
06/30/2024 | “Power in the Blood” | Leviticus 17
Chickens attack it. Parent’s panic. And some faint. Few are indifferent to blood. Bleeding is serious, not to be ignored. Life depends upon it. But blood is more precious than science observes. Its life-giving power illustrates a truth much more profound. Listen as we examine Leviticus 17 and consider the life-giving power of blood.
06/23/2024 | “Ploughing in Hope” | Leviticus 16:1-34
Are you hopeless? Drowning in sin and misery, sure there is no hope for you? Has brokenness, fear, sorrow, or futility made you despair? You need to know there has been a Day of Atonement. A day on which Christ declared, “it is finished.” Listen as we examine Leviticus 16 and consider the Day of Atonement, why it was needed, what it involved, when it would be fulfilled.
05/26/2024 | “Care Instructions” | Leviticus 14
Leviticus 14 commands ritual, washings, & sacrifices to pronounce lepers clean. But none of this actually makes a leper clean. It merely points to the Lord’s gracious healing. And declares to the community that God heals, God restores, God cleanses. Listen as we examine Leviticus 14 and consider the true power of God’s appointed means of grace and why it is important that we be both spiritual and religious.
05/19/2024 | “Contact Precautions” | Leviticus 13:1-59
Infectious disease turns neighbors into threats. And fear makes others “unclean.” Contagion, real or perceived, always threatens fellowship. “Jesus touched the leper.” But should we? Doesn’t Leviticus 13 teach us to keep our distance? Or does it? Join us as we examine Leviticus 13 and consider what endangers our fellowship with God and others far more than leprosy.
05/12/2024 | “Dirty Jobs” | Leviticus 12:1-8
Juxtaposed with warnings about the impurity of dead things, Leviticus 12 declares childbirth defiling. Surely children are innocent, pure, unstained. Or are they? Leviticus 12 reveals a terrible curse, but an even more potent deliverance. Join us as we examine the purity laws regarding childbirth and see how they reveal hope, mercy, grace, and salvation through Jesus.
05/05/2024 | “Making Distinctions” | Leviticus 11:1-47
What makes food clean or unclean? How do OT dietary laws teach, reprove, correct & train modern Christians in righteousness? Can we ignore them? What sweet savor of Christ do we to find in these warnings against pig roasts & shrimp on the barbie?
Join us as we examine Leviticus 11 and consider the dietary laws of Israel and the distinctions we are called to make as Christians called to be “a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [Christ’s] own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”
04/28/2024 | “Warning Label” | Leviticus 10:1-20
Worship is beautiful and glorious, but it can be deadly. Drawing near to God in our own way or on our own merit brings judgement. So, worship comes with a warning label. Leviticus 10 is a tragic but powerful reminder to worship God only as he commanded. Join us as we examine Leviticus 10 and consider the warning label God provides for our worship.
