Podcasts about Living Sacrifice

00:00:00 Romans 1 – Gospel Revealed, Wrath Against Unrighteousness, and Heathen Depravity00:04:04 Romans 2 – Impartial Judgment, Doers of the Law, and Inward Circumcision00:07:37 Romans 3 – All Have Sinned, Justification by Faith, and Boasting Excluded00:10:58 Romans 4 – Faith Imputed for Righteousness and Promise to Abraham00:14:12 Romans 5 – Peace with God, Grace Abounding, and Death Through Adam00:17:07 Romans 6 – Dead to Sin, Alive to God, and Servants of Righteousness00:19:57 Romans 7 – Dead to the Law, Inward Conflict, and Flesh vs Spirit00:23:11 Romans 8 – Life in the Spirit, Joint-Heirs with Christ, and More Than Conquerors00:27:59 Romans 9 – Election of Grace, Sovereign Mercy, and Israel's Stumbling-Stone00:32:00 Romans 10 – Righteousness of Faith, Confessing the Lord, and Preaching the Gospel00:34:36 Romans 11 – Remnant according to Election, Wild Olive Tree, and Mystery Revealed00:39:16 Romans 12 – Living Sacrifice, Diversity of Gifts, and Overcoming Evil00:41:47 Romans 13 – Subjection to Higher Powers, Love the Fulfilling of the Law00:43:58 Romans 14 – Weak in Faith, Judgement Seat of Christ, and Stumblingblocks Avoided00:46:59 Romans 15 – Bearing Weakness, Minister to Gentiles, and Paul's Travel Plans00:50:58 Romans 16 – Salutations to Saints, Warning Against Divisions, and Final Doxology

What if worship has less to do with the song you sing and more to do with the life you live when no one is watching? God is not simply after our songs, talents, or religious activity—He is after our whole lives. True worship means becoming a living sacrifice and choosing to give God our best in every moment. Anything we value above Christ can become an idol—even success, ministry, relationships, comfort, or spiritual experiences. Jesus must be enough, so tear down the idols, leave the excuses behind, and live a life that points to Jesus.

Sunday -9-27-26 Dorothy Sherrill

What does it truly mean to give God our lives? Romans 12:1-2 challenges us to move beyond surface-level faith and into something far more radical and transformative. Paul opens this chapter with a single word that carries the weight of eleven chapters of gospel truth behind it: 'therefore.' Because of everything God has already done for us, because of his mercy, his grace, his faithfulness even when we have failed him, there is a response being called out of us. That response is not a transaction or a checklist. It is surrender. Paul paints a vivid picture by borrowing the language of Old Testament sacrifice, asking us to present ourselves as living sacrifices. The tension in that image is striking and deeply personal. A living sacrifice can crawl off the altar. And if we are honest with ourselves, we do exactly that. We surrender on Sunday and take control back by Monday. This message calls us to examine which parts of our lives we are still holding back, and to consider what it would look like to lay them down completely as an act of genuine worship.

A Living SacrificeSeries: RomansPreacher: Luke KimberleySunday MorningDate: 20th September 2026Passage: Romans 12:1-2

A Living Sacrifice; Compromised? Transformed? Romans 12:1-2; Deuteronomy 18:9-15

True worship is expressed through a life fully surrendered to God. Explore what it means to present yourself as a living sacrifice—yielding your desires, choices, and daily life to God's will and purpose.

Living Sacrifice - John 15

Living Sacrifice - John 15

Chapel | September 15th, 2026 | Tim Daniel | Becoming a Living Sacrifice | Romans 12:1-2

Chapel | September 15th, 2026 | Tim Daniel | Becoming a Living Sacrifice | Romans 12:1-2

What does it actually look like to follow Jesus every day?In Romans 12:1–2, Paul calls believers to respond to God's mercy by offering their entire lives as a living sacrifice. Following Jesus isn't simply about what happens on Sunday or about getting to heaven someday—it's about allowing God to transform the way we think, live, work, relate to others, and make decisions every day.In this message, we explore what it means to stop being shaped by the world and instead be transformed by the renewing of our minds. As we surrender our lives to God, He changes us from the inside out and teaches us to recognize His will.Whether you've followed Jesus for years or are just beginning your journey of faith, the invitation is the same: give God all of you and allow Him to transform your life.

2026..09.13 The Omnivore's Dilemma: Living Sacrifices that Forgo Freedom to Walk in Love | Romans 14:1-15:2 | Donnie Kennedy by EP Church Annapolis

In response to the gospel, offer your whole self to God, and submit to the Spirit as he changes your thinking.

What does it mean to live completely for Christ in a world constantly trying to shape you? Pastor Steve wants you to discover the answer from Romans 12:1–2 and see how God's mercies call us to surrender, reject the world's mold, and be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Category: Messages, 2026, September 2026 Verses: Romans 12:1-5, Romans 12:9, Romans 12:13, Romans 12:21, Ephesians 1:23, 1 John 3:16, 1 John 4:20, Ephesians 4:2-3

By Carl Kasperson - We know that we are supposed to present ourselves as a living sacrifice, but when and how do we do that?

Listen to Pastor Gawel’s sermon for September 6, 2026, taken from Romans 12:1-8. The post Offer Yourself as a Living Sacrifice to God – Sermon for September 6, 2026 appeared first on St. Andrew Lutheran Church.

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Homily for the 13th Sunday after TrinityTrinity +13 (Proper 17), Year AAugust 30th, 2026Homilist: Fr. Lee McLeod, CJSt. Aidan's Anglican Church, Nicholasville, KY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.staidansanglicanchurch.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lectionary Readings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah 15:15–21Psalm 26Romans 12:1–8Matthew 16:21–27

Sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Parish Retreat Present Yourself As a Living Sacrifice Fr. Scott M Harding Download

A Living SacrificeA living sacrifice, according to Saint Paul, can simply be turning the little moments of every day to the embodied ideals of the kingdom that we hear in the Sermon on the Mount. https://standrewsgreencastle.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sermon_2026_AUG_30.mp3Subscribe to Podcast feed This post A Living Sacrifice is on the Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church website.

Preparing His bride | Aug 29, 2026 | PHB You have been called into a priesthood that is far more personal and demanding than occupying a religious office. In Christ, priesthood is not reserved for pastors, bishops, teachers, or those who stand before congregations; it is the calling of every believer. Your first responsibility as a priest is not to minister publicly before people, but to draw near to God, know Him, remain before Him, and offer your life to Him. The pattern of the sons of Zadok reveals what God desires: while others drifted with the corruption and idolatry around them, they remained faithful to His presence. In the same way, you must become someone who can remain true to God even when the culture around you, the people you admire, or even religious systems begin moving in another direction. This kind of faithfulness requires that you deliberately grow in the knowledge of God. You cannot understand His ways merely through assumptions, popular Christian culture, or what other people tell you. Give yourself to Scripture. Learn how God has dealt with individuals, nations, kings, priests, rebellion, righteousness, worship, and judgment throughout biblical history. The more deeply you become acquainted with His ways, the more capable you become of recognizing what agrees with His nature and what contradicts it. God has not changed simply because generations, governments, cultures, and religious systems have changed. The world may use different language today, but human desires, corruption, ambition, idolatry, righteousness, and the need for God remain fundamentally the same. Guard your heart carefully because idolatry is not limited to bowing before statues. Your heart can manufacture its own idols. Covetousness, ambition, money, influence, relationships, pleasure, entertainment, ideology, success, and even religious personalities can gradually become objects of devotion. Whatever continually shapes your desires will eventually shape your judgment. Your heart can be trained toward righteousness, but it can also be trained toward corruption. What you repeatedly watch, listen to, admire, discuss, pursue, and fellowship with is educating your inner man. If you constantly expose yourself to values that oppose God, eventually things that once appeared obviously wrong can begin to look reasonable, desirable, or even righteous. For this reason, spiritual maturity must produce discernment. You must learn to distinguish not only between obvious good and obvious evil, but between what merely looks good and what is genuinely holy. You do not need extraordinary spiritual discernment to know that lying, stealing, sexual immorality, deceit, or corruption are wrong. Even society recognizes many of these things. Mature discernment becomes necessary when something is attractive, respectable, profitable, intellectually persuasive, culturally accepted, or religiously impressive and yet carries a nature contrary to God. Your spiritual senses must become trained through continual obedience to the Word until you can recognize where a path is leading before you have walked far down it. You should increasingly be able to ask, “Where is this taking me? What kind of person is this making me? What spirit is shaping my judgment? Does this lead toward holiness or away from God?” The central offering of your priesthood is also not your money. God wants you before He wants what belongs to you. You cannot substitute financial giving, service, donations, or religious activity for surrender. Money cannot purchase intimacy with God, compensate for disobedience, or persuade Him to overlook a life that refuses His government. You cannot buy God. The offering He seeks begins with your own life. Present yourself as a living sacrifice. Give Him your will, your desires, your ambitions, your pleasures, your time, your body, your relationships, your resources, your future, and the things you would naturally prefer to keep for yourself. When your life truly belongs to Him, giving your possessions becomes a natural consequence of devotion rather than an attempt to purchase spiritual approval. Present yourself to God again. Repair the altar where it has fallen into neglect. Give yourself afresh to prayer and Scripture. Ask God to expose the idols that may have quietly formed within your heart. Allow Him to train your senses until you can distinguish the holy from the profane. Refuse to replace surrender with religious activity. Give Him your life before giving Him your possessions. Then take responsibility for what He places in your hands and for the people He places around you. The goal is not simply to carry the name of a priest, but to become one who truly draws near to God, carries His nature, protects what is sacred, and helps others find their way into the same life.

Friends, for this Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, I want to begin with our very brief second reading from Paul to the Romans. It opens, “I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.” Here we see Christ's cross and resurrection—the supreme sacrifice fulfilling all the offerings of the temple—extended to all the baptized. The Church is now the place where divinity and humanity are reconciled.

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Romans 12:1-2 I. Living Sacrifices (v. 1)The reason for serviceThe manner of serviceThe logic in service II. Logical Service (v. 2)What we are to avoid conformation to the worldWhat we are to receive transformation through the WordWhat we are to attain confirmation as a witness1. For ourselves2. For others More to Consider Most people wish to serve God -- but in an advisory capacity only. Quoted in Sunday Express, London. Self-righteous service comes through human effort. True service comes from a relationship with the divine Other deep inside. Self-righteous service is impressed with the "big deal." True service finds it almost impossible to distinguish the small from the large service. Self-righteous service requires external rewards. True service rests contented in hiddenness. Self-righteous service is highly concerned about results. True service is free of the need to calculate results. Self-righteous service picks and chooses whom to serve. True service is indiscriminate in its ministry. Self-righteous service is affected by moods and whims. True service ministers simply and faithfully because there is a need. Self-righteous service is temporary. True service is a life-style. Self-righteous service is without sensitivity. It insists on meeting the need even when to do so would be destructive. True service can withhold the service as freely as perform it. Self-righteous service fractures community. True service, on the other hand, builds community. Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, "The Discipline of Service." The great violinist, Niccolo Paganini willed his marvelous violin to city of Genoa on condition that it must never be played. The wood of such an instrument, while used and handled, wears only slightly, but set aside, it begins to decay. Paganini's lovely violin has today become worm-eaten and useless except as a relic. A Christian's unwillingness to serve may soon destroy his capacity for usefulness. J.K. Laney, Marching Orders, p. 34. I went into church and sat on the velvet pew. I watched as the sun came shining through the stained glass windows. The minister dressed in a velvet robe opened the golden gilded Bible, marked it with a silk bookmark and said, "If any man will be my disciple, said Jesus, let him deny himself, take up his cross, sell what he has, give it to the poor, and follow me." And I looked around and nobody was laughing. Soren Kierkagaard

https://andrewhorval.substack.com/p/book-of-romans00:00:00 Romans 1 – Gospel Revealed, Wrath Against Unrighteousness, and Heathen Depravity00:04:04 Romans 2 – Impartial Judgment, Doers of the Law, and Inward Circumcision00:07:37 Romans 3 – All Have Sinned, Justification by Faith, and Boasting Excluded00:10:58 Romans 4 – Faith Imputed for Righteousness and Promise to Abraham00:14:12 Romans 5 – Peace with God, Grace Abounding, and Death Through Adam00:17:07 Romans 6 – Dead to Sin, Alive to God, and Servants of Righteousness00:19:57 Romans 7 – Dead to the Law, Inward Conflict, and Flesh vs Spirit00:23:11 Romans 8 – Life in the Spirit, Joint-Heirs with Christ, and More Than Conquerors00:27:59 Romans 9 – Election of Grace, Sovereign Mercy, and Israel's Stumbling-Stone00:32:00 Romans 10 – Righteousness of Faith, Confessing the Lord, and Preaching the Gospel00:34:36 Romans 11 – Remnant according to Election, Wild Olive Tree, and Mystery Revealed00:39:16 Romans 12 – Living Sacrifice, Diversity of Gifts, and Overcoming Evil00:41:47 Romans 13 – Subjection to Higher Powers, Love the Fulfilling of the Law00:43:58 Romans 14 – Weak in Faith, Judgement Seat of Christ, and Stumblingblocks Avoided00:46:59 Romans 15 – Bearing Weakness, Minister to Gentiles, and Paul's Travel Plans00:50:58 Romans 16 – Salutations to Saints, Warning Against Divisions, and Final DoxologyView One-Year Reading Plan, Commentary, and Content:https://andrewhorval.substack.com/p/kingjamesbibleinoneyear

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. … Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. (Romans 12:1-2, 6-8)

Romans 12:1-2"Living Sacrifices"Daniel, Inter-Cultural Outreach Resident

Paul drives home the point that faith resides in our heart and our mind should drive us to faithful and fruitful living!

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A young man once discovered a stack of old comic books worth millions of dollars while cleaning out what others dismissed as garbage. In today's episode of the MY Devotional Podcast, Dr. Michael Youssef uses this surprising story to point believers to something infinitely more valuable: the body of every Christian as the temple of the Holy Spirit. Paul warned the Corinthian believers because they were treating their bodies as if they had little spiritual value. But Scripture declares that those who belong to Christ are not their own. The Holy Spirit Himself dwells within them, making their bodies sacred places where the presence of God resides. Dr. Youssef reminds us that our bodies were designed by God for more than biological function. They are meant to serve Him now and for all eternity. One day, believers will receive glorified, resurrected bodies—but even now, what we do with our bodies matters deeply to God. Because our bodies belong to the Lord, we are called to honor Him with our whole being. This devotional challenges every believer to reject sin, obey God's Word, and offer the body as an instrument of worship for the glory of Christ. Prayer: Father, help me to remember that my body is a temple for Your very presence. May my hands and feet bring You honor and praise as I live righteously by Your Spirit. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.  “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; . . .” (1 Corinthians 6:19). Learn more in Dr. Michael A. Youssef's sermon Healthy Living in a Sick World, Honor God with Your Body: LISTEN NOW | WATCH NOW The voice you hear on the MY Devotional podcast is digitally generated with Dr. Youssef's permission. If today's devotional stirred a question, burden, or need for prayer, you don't have to walk through it alone.

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In this episode from Wednesday Prayer, Pastor Joel Sims begins a powerful teaching on walking in the disciplines of Christ. Beginning with Romans 12:1, "...present your bodies as living and holy sacrifices..." Pastor Joel explores the pattern of Old Testament priestly service before leading us to Hebrews, where Jesus is revealed as our Great High Priest. Discover how Christ's finished work calls us to a daily response of worship, surrender, and devotion as we offer our bodies to God as living sacrifices.

What does it mean to be a living sacrifice? What does it look like to have your mind renewed by Christ? What does it look like to be in this world and not of it? Pastor Andrew and Pastor Forrest talk about all this and more as they process Romans 12:1-2. Enjoy!

Today's reflection is by Sister Teka Brown. Holiness is the standard.:

In response to God's extravagant mercy, be a living sacrifice.

When you hear the word worship, what comes to mind? Maybe you picture standing in church on Sunday morning, singing with your hands raised. Perhaps you think about prayer, reading Scripture, or verbally praising God. All of these are beautiful expressions of worship—but worship was never meant to be confined to a church service. Our entire lives can become an offering to God. This week on The Love Offering Podcast, I’m welcoming Cheryl Marshall back to the show to talk about her new book, All of Me: Pursuing a Life Wholly Devoted to God. Drawing from Romans 12:1–2, Cheryl helps us understand what it means to present ourselves as living sacrifices and worship God with every part of who we are. Our hands, feet, eyes, ears, thoughts, motives, abilities, responsibilities, hopes, and dreams all belong to Him. Whether we are caring for children, helping an aging parent, working at our jobs, serving in our churches, or simply completing the next ordinary task before us, we have an opportunity to honor God. But wholehearted devotion isn’t always easy. Cheryl identifies three things that can divide our devotion: distraction, disobedience, and discouragement. Sometimes our hearts become distracted by busyness or the desire for approval. Sometimes we hold on to a sin or attitude we know God is asking us to surrender. And sometimes discouragement convinces us that our current circumstances—or even our past—make us unable to do anything significant for Him. But Cheryl reminds us that our limitations do not disqualify us from glorifying God. In fact, those very places may become the setting where His strength, mercy, and faithfulness shine most clearly. Our devotion doesn’t begin with guilt, fear, pride, or striving. It begins with remembering God’s mercy. As Cheryl says, “All other motivations other than mercy will fail us.” Because Jesus gave all of Himself for us, we can joyfully offer all of ourselves to Him. If your heart feels distracted, weary, discouraged, or divided today, I hope you’ll listen to this conversation. God is patient with us. He meets us in our weakness, renews our minds through His Word, and gives us the grace to take the next faithful step. Connect with Cheryl Marshall: Website: CherylMarshall.comInstagram: @_cherylmarshallPodcast: Search for Whole Life Worship on your favorite podcast platform. Connect with Rachael Adams: Website: rachaelkadams.comInstagram: @rachaeladamsauthorPodcast: The Love Offering PodcastSupport the Show: https://rachaelkadams.com/ Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.