Offerings for Us

We have a problem. Everyone knows that much. But humans do not agree on what that problem is or who that problem is with. According to Scripture we have a problem of forgiveness. We have offended a holy God and are guilty before him as sinners. This is the central problem that drives the Bible’s story of which Leviticus plays a central part. With this sermon we come to another difficult stretch of material, yet the heart of the matter is this: the Lord deals graciously with his offenders. Ludicrous grace, it has been called.

Offerings for the Lord

Leviticus gets off to what feels like a slow start with instructions for five different offerings. Why so many offerings? How are they alike and how are they different? What help are these ancient rituals for my present-day walk with the Lord and for our communion as a church? In this sermon we will reflect on the first three of these offerings: the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the peace offering.

Welcome to the Tent of Meeting

Life. Other ideas come to mind when we think of Leviticus: rock badgers, laws about fabric, cloven foot animals, and many things that might disturb you if I mentioned them here. What do these have to do with our relationship with God? What do these have to do with life, even abundant life with God? Listen in and find out as we explore the first two verses of Leviticus.

Out of the Updsidedown

He Drove Out the Man

Godly Shepherds for Ungodly Times

Living Together in the End Times

Don’t Be Evil, Be Encouraged

Instruction for the Husbands

A Word to the Wives

Be Good Citizens

Foreign Lives

A Chosen Race

Sincere Love: A Sermon on the Heart of the Church

Hope-Filled Living: A Sermon on Personal Holiness

Jesus’ Resurrection, Our New Beginning

Be On Your Guard

A Beautiful Thing

He Is God of the Living

The Things that Are God’s

Baptism: A Sign of Addition

Baptism: A Sign of the New Covenant

Heaven’s King is Here

Alliances, Power Grabs, and a Better Way

What’s Wrong with Having Nice Things?

The Re-Genesis of Marriage

He Makes Bread and Heals Blindness

The Sower and the Sifter

Into the Tent

Up the Mountain

Out of Egypt

I Wait for Your Salvation, O Lord

We Are Guilty

Forgotten

Now the Sons of Jacob Were Twelve

Who Are You?

Baptism: A Sign of Danger

The Lord Has Led Me