1. Every Christian should understand what it means to have a Great High Priest
  2. How Leviticus 17 is a key passage for understanding atonement
  3. This is an excerpt from “Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment” by Bradley Gray (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  4. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  5. Maundy Thursday is your big night. For the Passover Lamb is given for you, given to you.
  6. You are not alone if you find it difficult to wrap your mind around the auspices of the Old Testament sacrificial system.
  7. The needs of the people remain the same, but now the people are you and me. We still sin, and that sin causes so many challenges in our lives.
  8. Forty days after giving birth, Mary, along with her husband Joseph, presented their firstborn Son at the temple and "bought" him back with a sacrifice of two small birds. This is known as the "Presentation of Our Lord."
  9. Christ our Word, as with a two-edged sword, burst the devil's belly.
  10. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  11. Make no mistake, sinners are in fact being pursued by a most hideous beast called sin, death, and the devil, unleashed and striking continuously.
  12. The Messiah is exiled from God on the cross as Israel was. Forsaken as Israel was forsaken. Cast away from Yahweh as Israel was. Why?
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