(1 Samuel 15:22) In the modern world, sacrifice that is pleasing to God is the total surrender of our lives to the will of God. When we live our lives with God at the center, we become better ...

After each one has been introduced, sacrifices are described as “rei-ah niho-ah,” “of pleasing odor,” to God. Akin to a chorus in a Greek play, this phrase frames these ancient rituals.

But the notion that underlies sacrifice—namely, that we can act in ways pleasing to God and therefore advance the likelihood of our salvation—is still operative. We might think of “sacrifice ...

to God the Father: "I exhort you . . . to present your bodies as a sacrifice, living, holy, pleasing to God-your spiritual service," wrote St. Paul to the Romans. 2 The Mass "requires all ...

your sacrifices do not please me” (Jeremiah 6:20). That passage emphasized how worldly treasures and ritual sacrifices do not matter to God if one's heart and behaviors contradict His laws and will.

Such was the nature of the sin of Adam and Eve. The Bible identifies several kinds of sacrifices that please God. The sacrifice of righteousness; where we become bonded to righteousness ...

We’re confident that the chances of our rabbi exhorting us to come next Shabbat with two year-old unblemished lambs for a pleasing ... sacrifice. Sacrifices were about the willingness to ...

offering himself on behalf of sinful humanity as an infinitely pleasing sacrifice to God the Father. The reality and the sacredness of Christ's sacrifice are emphasized by the Latin prayers ...

In Ephesians 5:2, we see Jesus “offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.” If Jesus’ sacrifice is a pleasing aroma to God that resulted in our becoming the “Bride of ...