Leviticus 13:1-59
Some of the ceremonial practices may seem strange, but they main point is that God was giving the people a way to address disease and to prevent the spread of disease.

Mark 6:1-29
Mark 6:1-6
What is interesting about this is that Jesus grew up not sinning. Did the people not see up to this point that he was different than other children and young men?
Notice it says because of the people's attitudes/mindsets Jesus was limited in doing miracles. Unbelief limits miracles. Those who are against divine healing and miracles today argue that they do not believe in these things because they see little of it-it is because of their unbelief. Plus, when healings take place they say it is of the devil, no different than the people of Jesus' time.

Mark 6:7-12
The disciples performed the same miracles as Jesus. Why did Jesus give them such scrict commands? So they would walk in faith and see how God provides. That would build their Faith to pray for the sick and cast out demons. It also would help the disciples to see more fruit because they would be ministering where there was people of faith.

Mark 6:13-29
How many men (or women) have been outside the will of God because of listening to the opposite sex, making decisions for the approval of man, etc.

Psalm 39:1-13
Psalm 39:1
We need to be careful what we say.

Psalm 39:4-6
The reality is that in the eyes of man we are nothing. All our riches mean nothing.

Psalm 39:7-13
The psalmist was repeating. In their repentance they were not defending their actions. How about you, when you repent of something are you giving all kinds of excuses or do you just come clean?

Proverbs 10:10
The Proverbs have been telling us what makes a person a fool. This verse states a fool will be ruined. So why would you want to be a fool.

Leviticus 11:1-12:8
Leviticus 11:1-47
Notice that many of the animals and fish that are classified as unclean are scavengers. The fish/shellfish that are listed are scientifically known to have higher contents of mercury.It is harder for the body to digest pork than other meats. 

Before the law was given by Moses, God had already defined what was to be clean and unclean when Noah put the animals on the ark. Notice that Noah put one pair of unclean animals and seven pair of clean animals. (Gen 7:2)

Why would there need to be more of the clean than unclean? Because the clean would be eaten and the unclean would not be eaten.Was it just coincidental that when Israel was in the desert for 40 years there was no sickness and disease and they did not eat of the unclean animals?

From the time frame of Genesis to Leviticus was God just arbitrarily 'prejudice' against unclean animals? Yes, this could just be a test to see if the people were obedient, but the evidence shows that God never saw unclean animals as food to eat. If God did not see unclean animals as food to eat in the Old Testament, did He change His mind in the New Testament? If so, why?

For me, I want to live healthy. Eating unclean animals is not healthy. My salvation is not dependent upon what I eat, but my health is?

 (More)  

Leviticus 7:28-9:6
Leviticus 7:30
'His own hands shall bring the offering'. No one can confess, repent for us.

Leviticus 7:31-35
A portion of the offering went to Aaron and the priests. The priests had no 'outside job'. Their needs were met by the tithes and offerings. Why do some Christians today question the concept of tithes and offerings. How do they think the church and pastors can function without tithes and offerings?

Leviticus 8:1-13
Moses anointed the tabernacle and Aaron. Anointing oil is symbolic of the Holy Spirit.

Leviticus 8:14-30
Once again you will notice that the fat, entrails, kidneys were not eaten.

Leviticus 8:35
The priests were to be at the tabernacle 24/7. What if all churches had their doors open 24/7 to minister to people at anytime? The problem is there would not be enough volunteers because it is hard at times to just get Christians to come to church once a week.

Leviticus 9:1-6
Over and over again the offerings had to be without blemish. If we try to access God without Jesus in our life, we are blemished. But Scripture says a Christian can boldly come before God.

 (More)  

Leviticus 6:1-7:27

I beat you are glad you were not living during the Old Testament times.

Leviticus 7:1-6

Notice again the entrails, kidneys, and fat were burned, but the meat was eaten by priests.

Leviticus 7:19-27

Was this just a random rule or did God have a purpose in it? I believe there were health resasons behind the guidelines. Things that were unclean were more likely to have disease. Disease would also be in the blood.

 (More)  

Leviticus 4:1-5:19
Leviticus 4 Praise God, when we sin, we have Jesus to forgive us, instead of having to do all the rituals. Catholicism with all of its rituals when you sin is works oriented like the Old Testament.

Leviticus 5
I believe part of the reason for the clean and unclean is God was using the law as a means to keep the people healthy-less chance of getting a disease.

Leviticus 5:4
Having to go through the ritual, would stop some from making foolish vows.

 (More)  

Leviticus 1:1-3:17
Leviticus 1:3
Notice the sacrifice was to be without defect. Jesus as the sacrificial lamb had to be without defect.

Leviticus 2:11
No offering was to have leaven (yeast). The reason was that leaven or yeast was symbolic of sin. Why symbolic of sin? Leaven will leaven the whole lump. If you hang around sin, you will be tainted with sin.

Leviticus 3
It is interesting that most of the time the fat, entrails, kidneys were to be consumed by fire-they were not to be saved for Aaron to be eaten. Was this coincidental or was there a reason why God wanted them consumed by fire, not eaten?

 (More)  

Once again the rumors have started up that Facebook is going to charge a fee for their service. Facebook has officially stated they will not charge a fee for basic service. What does basic service mean?

If there is any truth to the rumors that the fees will start in June, maybe it is time for us to reconsider the idea of creating a Christian Social Networking site.
http://administrator.christianblogsites.com/blog/post/2009/09/20/christian-social-networking-site

 (More)