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Jared Smith
Jan 112 min read
Oneness with the Ancestors
In a time when technology is advancing exponentially and life seems to move quicker by the day, there is a simultaneous thirst for the...
Jared Smith
Jan 42 min read
Our Holy Father
In Jesus’ second petition in what is known as His “High Priestly Prayer”, He prefaces the first request by addressing the Father as “Holy...
Christopher Diebold
Dec 27, 20233 min read
Understanding Glory
In the beginning of Jesus’ “high priestly prayer” in John 17, he prays that his Father would glorify him. In this petition, though, Jesus...
Christopher Diebold
Dec 21, 20233 min read
Esteeming Christ More and More
On this Christmas Eve, as we close out our consideration of the book of Leviticus, we arrive at a text that touches on the valuation of...
Christopher Diebold
Dec 12, 20233 min read
On Blessings, Curses, and Restoration
Leviticus 26, while it is not the final chapter of this book, serves as something of a punctuation mark for the “statutes, rules, and...
Christopher Diebold
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Echoes of the Jubilee
In Leviticus 25, we learn of a kind of once-in-a-lifetime event called the Jubilee. This Jubilee brought together the two broad concepts...
Christopher Diebold
Nov 28, 20233 min read
The Unity of Body and Soul
Last week in my sermon I made a comment that a Western view of the world more easily abstracts the physical from the whole mesh of...
Christopher Diebold
Nov 22, 20233 min read
Growth in Holiness
Moving from the Day of Atonement and its fulfillment in Christ to the holiness code of Leviticus 17-20, we move conceptually from the day...
Christopher Diebold
Nov 15, 20233 min read
The Importance of Christ's Exaltation
As we consider the Day of Atonement and its fulfillment in Christ, we can discern a distinctly cosmic bent to the whole matter. To a...
Christopher Diebold
Nov 2, 20233 min read
Accounting for Distinctive Living
In the aftermath of Nadab and Abihu’s innovating worship that ended up getting them fried to a crisp, the Lord speaks to Aaron directly...
Christopher Diebold
Oct 26, 20233 min read
Re-creation and the Tabernacle
In an earlier reflection, I raised the observation that the tabernacle represented a kind of miniature model of the universe, a...
Christopher Diebold
Oct 17, 20233 min read
The Extent of the Forgiveness of Sin
In the regulations that describe the sin or purification offering in Leviticus 4-5, there is an important word that sets the context:...
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