Emmaus Church Ankeny

We explore how it is that Leviticus ending on vows is not weird, but a wise way to call God's people to fully trust in his never-failing faithfulness.

Exploring the grace of God in the threats of judgement for disobedience to his covenant laws.

Theoden shows us God's care for the poor and how Jesus work to bring us Jubilee enables us to care for the poor as we take on God's image empowered by Jesus.

How sabbath and jubilee affect our relationship with the created world and other people.

How can justice and judgment fit with God's invitation to feast and find life with him?

God keeps the light on to eat a mess of bread with his people.

Josh walks us thorugh the Feasts of Lev. 23 and shows us how they are fulfilled in Christ and his Gospel work.

What do priests, bread, and slavery have in common? The Gospel.

God makes us Holy Priests through bread.

God reveals his identity and gives his people an ordered, holy, identity that is a reflection of his own identity.

Theoden takes us through what seems like some random laws in this text that represent God's call to purity that is fulfilled for us and in us by faith in Jesus.

We consider the loving attention of God and how we are transformed into people who obey him and give loving attention to others as we fix our attention upon Jesus.

Leviticus 18 exposes false pathways to the good life and shows us that God in Christ is our life, and not just biological life - but abundant life!

Theoden Wedel teaches on the holiness of God and what it is to be holy from Leviticus 19, and shows us how we are holy in Christ by faith.

Josh Stanton teaches on the "guardrails" around the use of blood in the law and how it points us to Jesus and his shed blood for us!

After God provides cleansing for his people, he calls them to worship him alone - and in Christ, God recreates our tastebuds to prefer him more than his blessings and more than the creation.

God calls Israel to recieve his cleansing and mercy through a living faith that fasts and rests in him.

The Day of Atonement - a display of immeasurably rich mercy from God to sinful people.

Leviticus 15 is a crazy chapter, and in it we hear the Good News that God is determined to bring cleansing and transformation to the most secret, intimate, and sacred parts of life - as every nook and cranny of life, no matter how good and righteous it may be, is contaminated by death and the corruption of sin.

Jesus is our home, he cleanses us in his blood and makes a home in us for our life and joy with him.

Cleansing for skin disease restores the unclean to communion with God and the community.

Walking by the Spirit.

As we prepare to celebrate Pentecost next week, Pastor Luke preaches out of the book of Ephesians to teach us about prayer and to invite us into the slow, smoky way of a continually-praying life!

Pastor Luke Snowden teaches us this week how God has made his people into agents of healing and restoration in this world and how skin diseases and uncleanness in the book of Leviticus points to this.

This week we discover how God meets us intimately in our loneliness, delivering us from uncleanness even as we consider an awkward text about birth and blood.