Welcoming Gifts

In this sixth episode, we discuss how Christ came to offer the perfect sacrifice for all humanity, once and for all and thus became the perfect offering, offerer, high priest, and sacrificial meal.

In this fifth episode we ask, what is our podcast icon about, what is that icon behind Fr. Jeremy, and, if these Old Testament sacrifices were so great, why did Jesus have to come?

Phil Bray, a working butcher and biblical scholar, brings hands-on butchery to readings of Leviticus. He explains slaughter practices, kosher killing, why blood was drained, and how ancient rituals reserved fat and organs for the divine. He contrasts meat as food versus carcass in ritual and explores how offerings, inspection rules, and communal sharing shaped sacred life.

In this third episode, we imagine what Old Testament sacrifices meant to the priests who offered them up to the Lord.

In this second episode, we imagine what Old Testament sacrifices meant to the people who brought them to the tabernacle and the temple, to be offered to the Most High God.

Join us for a brand-new podcast from Ancient Faith Ministries, hosted by Fr. Jeremy Davis and co-host Greg Waters. Welcoming Gifts - a podcast about Sacrifice in the Christian Faith. If you’ve ever wondered why God delights in sacrifice, or how it can change the way you live, this podcast is for you.