Ring of Truth

What would happen if a man with the keys was locked in a prison cell? Well, he’s going to just use the keys to get out. That’s what it was like when Jesus was crucified and locked into a tomb. He is the Author of Life. He held the keys to death all along, so of course, He was going to come back to life! Pastor Dan will share with you today insight into the identity of Jesus. Jesus is eternal and b...

An alternate world in which Jesus died on the cross but didn’t rise from the grave is a pretty hopeless world. Praise God that we don’t live in that world. We know that Jesus rose from the grave. He is our Living Hope! Today, Pastor Dan will encourage you with his message about the awesome truth of the resurrection. Have you ever felt hopeless? Maybe you’ve gone through sickness or some other kind...

In the old covenant, the people of God had to come to Him with their sacrifices to a place that was set apart and holy. Even then, only a select few could actually approach God. It was complex but incomplete. The sacrifices made weren’t perfect and they really only symbolized the atonement that God had promised to bring. As Pastor Dan continues our study in Leviticus today, we’ll be reminded that...

The woman with a permanent issue of blood who touched Jesus’s garment was breaking the rules, and according to today’s passage in Leviticus, she should have made Him unclean. It was quite a risk. She had also likely touched numerous people as she approached Him. But she believed it was worth the risk, and He rewarded her faith. As Pastor Dan will point out today, that’s the amazing thing about Jes...

Nothing is hidden from God’s sight. He’s not limited by time or location – He’s everywhere, all of the time.  We don’t see Him or hear Him, so we tend to ignore His presence. Because of this, we allow ourselves to be deceived into thinking that no one sees the sins we commit in secret. As Pastor Dan will remind us in today’s message, God sees all of it. He even sees our hearts and the sins that ar...

Sin is not something to take lightly. We tend to categorize sin into various levels. A white lie, for instance, may be easily forgiven if it was made with good intentions, while adultery or theft are considered much more serious. Some sins do cause more harm to others, but all sin leads to destruction and dishonors God. As Pastor Dan will challenge us today, we need to flee from sin and when we ca...

Sin comes in many forms, but ultimately it comes down to the attitude of your heart towards God. When you focus your life on serving yourself, your heart is pointed away from your Creator, leading to a life full of sinful actions. As Pastor Dan will explain in today’s message, the Levitical system outlines the need for a sacrifice to atone for our wrongdoing. The animal sacrifices were not enough...

If Jesus fulfilled the Law, do we really need to worry about entire books of the Bible that are almost exclusively dedicated to it? As Pastor Dan continues our study of the book of Leviticus in today’s message, we’ll be reminded of the importance of studying these rules and rituals. Not only do they highlight our incompetence as sinful humans, desperately in need of a Savior, but they offer beauti...

As Pastor Dan will remind us in today’s message, leprosy in the time of Leviticus was a death sentence. Not only was it incurable, eventually leading to a slow, uncomfortable death, it caused instant death to your social life.  You were kicked out of your community and prohibited from contact with the clean. This is what sin does to your soul. It’s an eternal death sentence and it isolates you whi...

Sin is inescapable in this broken world. Jesus offers salvation and redemption for those who trust in Him, but as long as we walk in these earthly bodies, we’ll be burdened by the consequences of sin and its entanglement. As Pastor Dan points out in today’s message, we can experience joy and hope in the life that Jesus provides, but we can’t expect sin to completely go away until the day He makes...

Leviticus is complex. The rules we find here can be confusing. Today’s chapter is focused on dealing with lesions on the skin. It fell to the priests to determine whether it was just a surface-level issue or a deeper issue of leprosy. Many would assume God’s guidance on this matter was for the sake of protecting the community from contagious disease – which is a good byproduct of these rules - but...

Sometimes the pastorate can appear glamourous. You get to be in the spotlight, up on stage with everyone listening to you and your vote seems to count for more than the average churchgoer. There are some pastors who take advantage of this and bask in the limelight, but for many, it’s a different story. As Pastor Dan will point out in today’s message, many of those pastors you see up on stage are l...

Most of us have pointed the finger at God and wondered how a benevolent Creator could allow the pain and suffering we endure in this world. Depending on your circumstances this may have introduced some doubt into your heart, and for some it creates a rift that they can’t overcome, leading them to reject the very idea of God. As Pastor Dan examines today’s chapter in Leviticus, he’ll remind us that...

God designed the Old Covenant – a covenant based on placeholders and intermediaries – knowing it was incomplete. His part was complete, but we could never measure up based on its requirements. Our behavior would always fall short and the sacrifices we could offer were never perfect. God knew this, and as Pastor Dan will point out in today’s message, His plan was always to send Jesus to fulfill the...

Our culture pushes the idea that we’re all good by nature. If we seem to naturally feel a certain desire, it can’t be wrong, and we should seek to fulfill that longing. This philosophy goes directly against what Scripture teaches. As Pastor Dan will clarify in today’s message, every human is born into sin. From the moment we’re capable, we choose to behave selfishly. Being born with a certain desi...

We tend to tense up when people put rules on us. They might be completely reasonable and sensible policies, but just the fact that someone’s telling us what we can or can’t do causes us to bristle up like a porcupine. This tendency to rebel against all forms of authority is a product of our selfish, sinful nature. As Pastor Dan will explain in today’s message, as believers, we have to admit that o...

God often uses the completely unexpected to carry out His will. In today’s message, Pastor Dan will draw our attention to the story of Elijah when he was in hiding. Scripture tells us that ravens brought him food – ravens and the food they eat are both unclean based on Levitical law. God also led him to the home of a widowed Gentile woman, where he was sheltered and fed through the miraculous prov...

There are quite a few laws in Leviticus that are surprising and confusing to us today. There’s been speculation through the years that His rules were based on preventing illness or maintaining personal hygiene. That may have been a benefit of some of the laws, but for others, it doesn’t add up. As Pastor Dan will explain in today’s message, we don’t have to understand these laws, and neither did t...

Humility is required for all Christ followers. To come to Him, you have to realize how broken and helpless you are. From the moment He comes into your heart and begins to transform you into His likeness, your focus needs to shift from bringing glory and attention to yourself to pointing others toward Him. As Pastor Dan will point out in today’s message, anytime a ministry becomes focused on the pr...

God knows our hearts intimately. He sees potential and weakness that we’re incapable of seeing in ourselves. As Pastor Dan will point out in today’s message, the sacrifice Jesus made – taking our sin on Himself – was a complete work of redemption. It wasn’t just for our spiritual being. His salvation is for the whole being – physical, mental, and spiritual. Our whole self belongs to Him and should...

Before Jesus, we were unable to interact directly with God because of our sin. God wanted His beloved Creation to be restored back to Himself, and He gave Israel the Levitical priests as a temporary mediator until the time when He would send a complete solution in Christ. As Pastor Dan continues our study of the book of Leviticus in today’s message, we’ll dive deeper into our understanding of this...

When we hear that there’s going to be a sermon series in Leviticus, how many of us start thinking it might be a good time to catch up on things around the house rather than go to church? Let’s be honest, the Old Testament can be hard to understand. But Pastor Dan walks you through some incredible – and relatable – truths in today’s message that you may not have heard before. The Old Testament is f...

When life gets busy – and, let’s face it, it’s always busy and only getting busier – it’s difficult to make time for things like reading our Bible, praying, and fellowship. We think that if we could just skip church on Sundays, we might actually get a day off each week. But in today’s message, Pastor Dan encourages you to keep the fire going! It’s imperative that you take your faith seriously, esp...

God is Holy, and we are not. We hear this often and know it, but how often do we consider what it means? It means that since God is perfect, we must also be perfect to approach Him. Hopefully, this doesn’t come as a surprise, but none of us are perfect. So, how can we approach God? In today’s message, Pastor Dan tells you that before Jesus came, people had to bring sacrificial offerings to be acce...

Have you ever stopped, taken a minute, and looked at the culture around you? Like really thought about what’s being constantly presented? We’re surrounded by death. Opportunities and products promising life outside of God, ads featuring more and more revealing styles. Then in the news, there are wars, rumors of wars, disease, disasters, and on it goes. There’s no way to avoid it all. So, today, Pa...