Kerux Commentaries enable pastors and teachers to understand and effectively present the main message in a biblical text. Leviticus focuses on relationships--a relationship withGod through worship and relationships with other people through holiness. Throughout the book, the priests and the Levites receive special responsibilities to help Israel in both these spheres. Authors Michael A. Harbin and Mark C. Biehl show how Leviticus lays out three related practices that would hold these relationships together for the nation of Israel: corporate worship; personal and collective holiness; and righteous living as a covenant community. Harbin and Biehl suggest bridges to our own culture by discussing what the Israelites at Sinai would have understood about the reasons behind what Leviticus prescribes. Just as the Israelites’ complex relationships with family and neighbors formed a foundation for both cultural and personal wellbeing, the church today is called to pursue wholistic shalom in its own time and place. Based on the Big Idea preaching model, Kerux enhances the reader’s ability to deliver a message that is biblical, cohesive, and dynamic. Michael A. Harbin (ThD in Old Testament and Semitic Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary) is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Taylor University where he has taught for 30 years. His previous publications include The Promise and The Blessing: A Historical Survey of the Old and New Testaments and To Serve Other Gods: An Evangelical History of Religion . Mark C. Biehl (DVM, University of Illinois) has served as the Lead Pastor of Upland Community Church, Upland, IN for 15 years. After graduating from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with an MA in Religion (2006), he completed a two year Ministry Residency at College Church in Wheaton. Prior to seminary, Dr. Biehl practiced both large and small animal medicine for 22 years after earning his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Illinois.