Offer Your Lives As Sacrifices

by | Apr 3, 2022 | What's Happening

Rom 12:1-2 urges us ‘in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.’ Each one of us has something precious to offer to God: ourselves! We all have gifts to share, talents that God has...

The Sacrifice of Praise

by | Apr 2, 2022 | What's Happening

Sin offerings in the Old Testament were the way that people dealt with the corrupting and pervasive problem of sin in the human heart. They involved the death of an animal and foreshadowed the death of Jesus Christ as a sin offering for all of humanity. Christ’s death...

Christ, our Passover Lamb

by | Apr 1, 2022 | What's Happening

1 Cor 5:6-8 reminds us of how a little leaven (yeast) works through the whole dough. Sally Welch takes us into the realm of New Testament cooking, showing us that bread was made by keeping back a small piece of dough from the previous batch, which was left for a few...

The Ultimate Sacrifice

by | Mar 31, 2022 | What's Happening

It’s virtually impossible to look at the topic of sacrifice without looking at Genesis 22, the passage where Abraham is tested by God and asked to sacrifice his promised son, Isaac. Many view this passage with horror: how could God ask Abraham to do such a thing? What...

Desiring Mercy

by | Mar 29, 2022 | What's Happening

Today’s reading (Matthew 9:9-13) looks at the calling of Matthew (Levi), a tax collector who heeded the call to follow Jesus. As a tax collector, he was despised and disliked; religious people often disliked Jesus because he associated with ‘tax collectors and...