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Preaching Christ from Leviticus: Foundations for Expository Sermons is unavailable, but you can change that!

For pastors who take seriously the commitment to incorporate the entire Bible into their preaching, Sidney Greidanus’s books on preaching Christ from the major genres of the Old Testament have been a welcome gift. In his last such volume, Greidanus engages with the Old Testament genre of law and treats a book that is often seen as the most challenging of all: Leviticus. Preaching Christ from...

have followed Luther in advocating this limited use of Old Testament law for Christians. For example, William Thompson writes, “The point of Christ’s death and resurrection is that on the cross he satisfied the demands of the law. Paul put the argument insightfully and elegantly in Romans 8:2. ‘For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.’ … The intent of the law in Christian theology is to awaken us to our distance from the will and purpose of
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