Continuing through Leviticus, Pastor Alex Lessler teaches us about the consuming power of God. Sometimes we can view God as full of wrath and destruction, which can lead us to a fear any relationship with him. It can also tempt us to judge him, suspecting that he is not good after all. Instead, we learn […]

In Leviticus 9, we read about something unique. God tells the Israelites to make a specific sacrifice in a specific way so that God will reveal his glory to them in a powerful manner. As Pastor Brad examines this passage in the light of the rest of scripture, he demonstrates three truths about God “showing […]

This week in Leviticus, Moses anoints Aaron and his sons as priests in a public ceremony before the entire congregation of Israel. It’s a surreal scene that involves a public bath, bloody animal sacrifice, and exotic blood-spattered clothing. Could it feel more foreign and gross? However, what this mysterious and ancient rite signifies is that […]

Leviticus shows us how this wholly different God, who names Himself Yahweh, moves toward his people, the Israelites. They have just been freed after hundreds of years of captivity in Egypt, and now they must become a nation in their own right—living in a wholly integrated harmony with Him and one another. However the Israelites […]

This week Pastor Alex Lessler demonstrates to us valuable lessons we can learn from the freewill offering described in Leviticus chapter 3. Unlike the offerings described in the first two chapters of Leviticus, this offering was optional, not required. It was a way for the Israelites to draw near to God and it ended in […]

In the second week of the Leviticus series, Pastor Brad takes us a little deeper into the details of approaching God and much care the Lord lavishes on his relationship with us. Throughout this series, we are looking at rites and rituals of purification. We’ll also examine the instructions given to the ancient Hebrews. This […]

Pastor Brad opened up this series on Leviticus by setting the scene. He answered questions that people often ask of this ancient text. It was both challenging and engaging, as he made the case that God is in search of us, not the other way around. The rituals that feel distant and confusing are actually […]

In the final week of the Sh’ma series, Pastor Brad focuses on what it looks like to love God with our might (also translated strength). Loving God with our might or strength means that we enthusiastically put effort into loving for God in tangible and visible ways. Our faith in God and our affection for […]

This week, Jamie Lilley reads Psalm 12 while Casey Parnell sings My Jesus I Love Thee.

The Sh’ma commands us to love God with all our heart, soul, and might. This week, Pastor Brad focuses on the word “soul.” We often think of our souls as being the spiritual part of us, as opposed to our physical being. However, that’s not how the Hebrew people thought of the soul. They saw […]