Leviticus & Christmas

Today in seminary we introduced Leviticus -- it is like an instruction manual on the Mosaic Law. To show the value in having instructions I set out tools and ingredients and asked two students to make something yummy. These were the ingredients:

Powdered sugar, cocoa, salt, eggs, vanilla, chocolate chips.

After some discussion with the studio audience my student chefs gave up and I brought out the cookies I had made the night before with those ingredients and a recipe I found via Pinterest.

recipe available here:
http://chocolateandcarrots.com/2011/07/flourless-fudge-chocolate-chip-cookies

We had a discussion on 4 pillars of the Mosaic Law (sacrifice, remembrance, separation, cleanliness) found in Leviticus and what it had to do with them today. They discussed. It was fabulous.

Another nice thing: this lesson plan came directly from the teacher's manual!

Following our discussion we took the first link from our Christmas Countdown chain (14 seminary days until Christmas Break) and answered the question inside. Today is was, "What is your favorite Christmas tradition?" Lots of fun sharing ensued.

Shout out to Karen for helping me come up with link topics, from "Egg Nog: Yes or No?" to "In your nativity, does baby Jesus go in the manger all month or only on Christmas Eve?"

Such a good morning. Tomorrow I will do the first of 4 advent lessons and introduce a Christmas Challenge based on Matthew 25:31-40.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!