How Leviticus 17 is a key passage for understanding atonement

Death may speak, and its voice may sound authoritative and decisive. Nonetheless, it is a mere whimper from the grave.

God doesn't help those who help themselves. He saves those who can't do anything for themselves.

When God's Word went to the cross and made full payment for all our sinful, self-serving, self-seeking activities, and then rose from the dead, Jesus added an "always and forever" to our days and life.

In a variety of ways, even in these troubled and unusual times, we can follow the lead of our Savior, to do everything we can for the life, welfare, and health of our neighbor.

We were lost. We didn’t know where we were going or which way to turn. We had been driving around in circles for hours with nothing to show for it. And now we weren’t sure how to find our way home - and losing hope by the minute.

Recently, I've had to confront the idea of death. Not that death is merely an idea, but for me it kind of was. I've been fortunate enough to never have someone I knew unexpectedly pass away until a couple of weeks ago.

In Adam and in us, life has been wrapped in death. But in Jesus, God has wrapped death in life.

Christ rose from the grave so that the eternal Light of Christ would be your forever identity.

Death is never natural. Death is abnormal. Death is not human. Death is the enemy.

This is why a Christian must keep learning to forget himself so long as he lives.

I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.