Our Lives as Celebration
Our family had the awesome opportunity to see Rend Collective in concert this past Friday night. I have wanted to see
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New Year Questions for the Church Member
As a covenant community, the members of my church, Westwood, intentionally seeks ‘meaningful membership.’ I love that we are a
Giving to God what is Marginal
God’s rebuke of his priests in Malachi offers a sobering picture of the reality of marginal giving for the Church today. To understand this, we must fully understand the context of this heavy passage in light of the entire biblical narrative. In his indictment, God accuses the Priests of “offering polluted food upon my altar” when they “offer blind animals in sacrifice…and those that are lame or sick” (Mal 1:7, 8). Now at first glance we may simply believe that God chastises his priests for the mere fact that they have broken his law, which indeed they had (see Lev 22:17-25; Deut 15:21; 17:1). True, the priests were guilty of offering what was easy instead of what was commanded; however, the context and very purpose of the sacrificial system in which the priests participated forbids us to stop at that interpretive level.
