Tag: Hebrews
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Hebrews 5:1-4 – The High Priest’s Office
The groundwork, the preparatory material, for everything we will read up to chapter 10 verse 18 is being laid down in the first 10 verses of chapter 5. The author…
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Hebrews 4:11-16 – Two Necessities to Enter God’s Rest (Part 2)
God has promised us the opportunity to enter His rest. But not everyone who hears of His promised rest will enter it. The author of Hebrews tells us we must…
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Hebrews 4:11-16 – Two Necessities to Enter God’s Rest (Part 1)
When I was in college I learned to rappel as part of my military instruction. To rappel you get into a in a waist harness and a rope is run…
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Hebrews 4:1-10 – Let Us Enter His Rest
Can you remember a day when you worked so hard you were physically exhausted? I mean one of those good days where you know you worked hard and accomplished so…
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Hebrews 3:7-19 – The Danger of an Unbelieving Heart
Pistol Pete Maravich was the youngest inductee in the basketball hall of fame and perhaps the greatest basketball player of all time. While playing a pick up game of ball…
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Hebrews 3:1-6 – Consider Jesus (A Comparison and Contrast with Moses)
In a story called “Jackie Robinson and the year of the Boar,” a little girl recounts her move from China to New York. One day her father needs something from…
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Hebrews 2:10-18 – Jesus Really Became Human
Perhaps you have heard this story. An atheist did not believe in Christ because he thought the idea that God would become a man was too absurd to think it…
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Hebrews 2:5-9 – What Has Come Down Will Go Up
Perhaps if you were like me as a child (though hopefully you weren’t) you tried to launch some hand held object with enough force to send it into orbit. You…
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Hebrews 1:5-14 – The Son’s Superiority over Angels
Angels are all the rage today. You see angel pins, angel necklaces and angel bumper stickers. Books on angels abound. One commentator said he looked in the “angel section” at…
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Hebrews 1:1-4 – Don’t Give Me That Old Time Religion
Jeremiah, Jer as he liked to be called, sat in his small lonely one-room accommodations as the evening shadows fell upon the city. No need for a light as he…