Hi. My name is Phil Bray. I live in Sydney Australia with my wife and 3 kids. I've been studying Leviticus, sacrifice and atonement for over 5 years. At some point I realised 2 things. First: I might have a problem. Second: I guess I'm writing a book now!

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The premise for my book started with the question 'what is a living sacrifice?' and progressed to me being lost down a wombat warren investigating ancient sacrifice.

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Here's my book tease.

When was the last time you smelled the incense and the roasting meat of a sacrifice? When was the last time you ate a sacrifice? It’s hard for us to know how to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, when we’re not familiar with a dead sacrifice. And it’s hard for us as modern people to understand how Jesus can be a sacrifice, unless we understand how ancient people understood sacrifice. That’s essentially the journey my book (and this blog) will explore; how ancient people experienced sacrifice - there will, of course be lots of Leviticus, but also other ancient peoples and Israel's neighbouring nations. Then with a new (ancient) lens through which to view Jesus as a sacrifice, we might be in a better place to ask what it means to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice today.