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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Two Covenants Compared
Description: Continuing our journey through the Bible, this week’s reading is from the letter to the Hebrews. Today is All Saints Sunday, and delivering the Communion Meditation is Rev. James Sewell, a retired minister who was on West End’s staff from 1970-1983. Rev. Sewell says that this epistle to the Hebrews appears to be to a congregation of Christians who converted from Judaism as it mentions two covenants, the first being the one through the law of Moses, and involving animal sacrifices to God in tribute and/or for sins committed. The second covenant was the one initiated by the...