Today is Good Friday. We remember the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Luke 23:46–47. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, he said, «Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.» Having said this, he breathed his last. So when the centurion [...]

Today is a great day, and it’s a joy to be able to speak to each one of you as we honor God and celebrate Him for what He has done for us as a church. Thirty-six years ago, we started an effort to please God, and a church was planted on the 26th of [...]

You make sacrifices because you have something more valuable and pleasurable at the end of the sacrifice, and what hope does is keep the long-term situation in view. I’ve been looking forward to being with you because I wanted to talk to you about [...]

I don't wanna just push play on the playlist. I don't wanna just jump off the shuttle and come through the door. I wanna be thinking like all the way, like, I wanna be thinking about what I'm bringing. I wanna be thinking about my [...]

You know, the scripture tells us in Romans 12:1 that we should present our bodies as a living sacrifice to the Lord. And when we present our bodies as a living sacrifice to the Lord, you know what happens? The glory falls. When the temple was [...]

God bless you and shalom, my beloved friend. Some of you may have Jewish friends and you're a bit timid about sharing your faith in Jesus with them because deep down inside you're thinking: "The Jewish people are God's chosen [...]

Today we're going to launch into a new appointed day of the Lord, the Day of Atonement, called in Hebrew "yom", meaning "day", or "kippur", meaning "covering". Why do we call it Yom Kippur, or the Day of [...]

God's intense "so" love is displayed between two lifted symbols—the bronze serpent healing bites from fiery snakes and Christ becoming sin on the cross to cure sin's venom. Just as complaining Israel was bitten for unbelief and [...]

God's infinite, intense "so" love—everlasting and unconditional—extends to the whole sinful world, not just the righteous or the church, compelling Him to bruise Himself in Christ to resolve the dilemma of hating sin yet loving [...]

In Genesis 7, God instructs Noah to bring seven pairs of clean animals and birds onto the ark—extra ones set apart specifically for sacrifice—pointing to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The sermon highlights the seventh dove released by [...]

Peace be with you. Friends, we come this weekend to the feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and the Blood of Christ. I always love the opportunity to preach on the Eucharist because, as Vatican II famously said, it's the source and summit of the [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Cross At The Center - Part 1 I want to give you a number of different reasons why we need the cross at the center, why nothing else must ever be allowed to take the place of the cross in the church in general, and in [...]

Well, this is an important time of year as it regards to the Lord reminding us about the great themes of our redemption that are reflected in the Appointed Days of the Lord, which are recorded for us in the Torah, the first five books of our Bible. [...]

Awesome, awesome. Well, we are in week number 4 of a series that we're calling "Jesus Is". We're simply answering the question, "Who is he"? and we've been using the different names or definitions that the Bible [...]

This is an excerpt from: Complete Salvation And How To Receive It - Part 1 But in the course of time I made two discoveries or I found two ways of communicating this to people. There are two key words which I believe God has given me to explain [...]

What if you decided you wanted to give something to God? What if you decided, "I want to give God something"? What could God use? What does God need? What does God want? You talk about somebody's got everything? Ehhh, somebody's [...]

I think it would be profitable if I just read through the note outline that you have commencing at the bottom of 7/1. I don’t intend to pause but just to get our minds in gear, then we’ll go on. Chapter 7:11, I’ve commented on the need for another [...]

John Bradshaw : Welcome to "Line Upon Line," brought to you by It Is Written. This is where we get to answer your Bible questions. You know, we can't answer them if you don't send them. So if you have a Bible question, send it [...]

Blood is the liquid of life, and Jesus poured out His blood to take away the sin of the world. You know, in the Bible we read about one of the great patriarchs. His name was Abraham. And our lesson tonight is called the Ultimate Sacrifice and [...]

Ecclesiastes says, "Two are better than one". Now if you're married and you're sitting close to your spouse, that's a good time for you to score brownie points and say "Amen". Why are two better than one? For lots [...]

Jonathan Bernis : We are so glad you're joining us today. I'm Jonathan Bernis, and I'm joined again by my co-host Ezra Benjamin. And today we're gonna dive into something that we're asked all the time. We get so many [...]

When an earthquake struck, a 21-year-old Indonesian air traffic controller had a difficult decision to make, hundreds died, and many more may have, but for his bravery. When his colleagues fled from the swaying control tower as the ground split [...]

Father, this is a unique evening where you call us to remember, to remember a sacrifice that was done so long ago on our behalf. Father, I pray that the Holy Spirit of God would bring things to our mind that maybe we need to deal with or confess [...]

Can you imagine stepping into the line of fire on a battlefield to save your enemy? On November 12, 1944, German Lieutenant Friedrich Lengfeld heard the desperate cries of a wounded American soldier who had been shot down in the midst of a German [...]

Message today, we're going to be talking about really a very important central, core Bible theme dealing with the beauty of sacrifice. Sacrifice, and typically when we think about sacrifice, we recoil a little bit at the idea because it makes [...]

And the title of this message is "All on the Altar". I considered it later and should have entitled it this: "Is Your All on the Altar"? Because I want to make this personal like Paul made it personal. Coming off the great [...]

We showed you last week that the sin offering and the trespass offering was predominately for sins that were unintentional. And yet when we read in the Book of Leviticus, we read last week that many of the sins that the offering atone for, things [...]

We are on today the second of the major offerings that are revealed in the book of Vayikra that took place inside the tabernacle. We're looking today at what we're calling the grain offering. It's also referred to as the meat offering [...]

Every part of the Israelites life, Beloved, was governed by the Torah, what they ate, the laws of kosher, how they dressed. Let me ask, is the way that you dressed, let me ask you this question, remember the burnt offering in Leviticus chapter 1 [...]

In addition to studying all the pieces of furniture, which we did in our last study, we're now, Beloved, going further and we're looking at what the priests did in their worship to Yahweh inside the Tabernacle. All the instructions, [...]

As we study archeology, we find that even in the most primitive environments, the people groups that we've been able to unearth from rubbles, we find that within these people groups beloved, in their society, there are elaborate systems of [...]

In this series we're looking at the worship, the priesthood, and the sacrifices that were offered up to Yahweh in the tabernacle. Because the tabernacle wasn't an end in and of itself beloved, it was all that surrounded the tabernacle that [...]

We're beginning a brand-new series today entitled Worship, the Sacrifices and the Priesthood. It really is a continuation of where we were in our previous broadcast. In our previous series, we looked at that time tabernacle. We studied all the [...]

Hebrews 10:14, which speaks about what Jesus accomplished by His death on the cross: For by one offering, or by one sacrifice, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. The one offering, or the one sacrifice, is the sacrifice He made [...]

John the Baptist declares "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29), pointing to Jesus as God's perfect, permanent sacrifice—fulfilling Old Testament Passover and atonement systems—offering unlimited [...]

In this expository journey through Romans, the preacher masterfully weaves Paul's argument—reducing Jews and Gentiles to their shared sinfulness, justifying them by faith for peace with God, freeing them from sin's dominion through [...]

In this beautiful account from John 12, the preacher shares the story of Mary anointing Jesus' feet with costly spikenard oil, an extravagant act of worship born from deep gratitude after Jesus raised her brother Lazarus from the dead. While [...]

In this moving sermon on Psalm 126:5-6, the preacher highlights the power of "precious seed"—something deeply valuable that we release with tears and sacrifice, which unlocks the "doubtless" dimension of faith where supernatural [...]

We're living in the "Now" generation. Whatever you want, most of which you can get it right now. That's both good and it's also dangerous. Many things you can't have, really spiritually, because it will destroy you. But [...]

Do you ever feel, Beloved, that if you were to stand before a righteous God, He would have a long list of judgments against you, a long list of, certificate of, things that you have done that have violated Him and His righteousness? Does the thought [...]

What is the spirit of this age all about? It’s all about me. We think the world revolves around us and whatever we want to do, that’s absolutely fine. Well Beloved, that really not the way it is when you belong to Jesus Christ. We need to understand [...]

Before Jesus was crucified, He made up His mind that He would be the Spiritual sacrifice for all people—that decision forever changed the way we get rid of sin and approach the Father. We look to Jesus to find freedom, no matter what we've done. [...]

It really has been a pretty great year here at Elevation Church. I don't mean we haven't had struggles. I don't mean we haven't had challenges. You've had yours, and I've had mine. We'll talk about it sometime, but [...]

When you go through hard times in your life, don't forget - God Knows Your Sacrifices and Sufferings. When life seems so difficult and you are ready to give up, remember - God Knows Your Sacrifices and Sufferings. In final God will reward you [...]