Forbidden Food

No, not cream cakes!

A really challenging one, this.

Come on Friday and consider why God allowed the Iraelites to eat sheep but not pigs. Or stranger still, locusts were okay but not many other insects!

Why?

Come find out!

Comments welcome here in the meantime!

Ordination - The Story Continues

This Friday we return to the story, after several chapters of instructions (though even the instructions were part of the story..)

The central theme is the ordination of Aaron to the priesthood. But what does it have to teach us?

Should we allow it to speak to us about priesthood today (and does that mean a separate priesthood or all believers?)

Or does it teach us about the priesthood of Jesus?

Or both?


Below are a couple of websites that explore the topic.

Comments here welcomed or better still join us at the pub - 7.30pm for 8pm on Friday evening.




http://honoringtheministry.blogspot.com/2007/07/ordination-ears-thumbs-and-toes.html





http://biblestudiesnet.homestead.com/files/levlsn3.html

More of the same?

On Friday (that's September 12th, I think) we will look at the next part of Leviticus... which is remarkably like the earlier chapters. The first section of the book describes the various sacrifices from the priests' point of view. This section tells us the same thing from the worshipper's angle.

Why is the Bible so repetative? It is often suggested that it's because God wants to make a point, yet this seems a little dull and maybe irrelevant to today. But is it more important than that? What do you think?

Answers by comment here or on Friday in the pub with the usual suspects....

A Fellowship Offering? What on earth is that?

But surely it's simple... Jesus was the offering made for us. He died in our place on the cross, for our sins, didn't he? What are all these different offerings in Leviticus? If Jesus fulfills the requirements of the law, what are all these different laws about sacrifice?

Discuss... on here and at the pub on Friday!