Daily Bible Reading, November |
Faith That Walks When the Road Isn’t Paved Faith is not lying to yourself that everything is alright when it’s not. Faith is standing up when everything in you is telling you to sit down. Hebrews 11 starts with a definition that shatters the world’s version of...
Daily Bible Reading, November |
Playing with Fire: The Cost of Willful Sin “We are not of those who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul” (Hebrews 10:39). Look around the church today. The lights are bright. The music is loud. The crowds are large, but the...
Daily Bible Reading, November |
In the past, the sacrifice of animals made certain things holy. A sacrifice is a gift to God. The author of Hebrews has already explained that the blood of sacrifices made God’s house and its contents holy (Hebrews 9:21). ...
Daily Bible Reading, November |
There are many people today who dislike any mention of the judgement of God. Perhaps they do not really believe that hell exists. Or perhaps they worry that they might frighten someone. The author of Hebrews clearly did not agree with any opinions like those ones. He...
Daily Bible Reading, November |
Even before Jesus came, there was a holy place in this world. And there were rules about the right way to serve God. Those facts may surprise us. God had established a holy place in an unholy world. And he had declared that certain actions to serve him were right. ...
Daily Bible Reading, November |
That is why God promised a new covenant. He wanted to have a new kind of relationship with his people. They would genuinely know him as their God. And then they really would be God’s own people. They would obey him, because his law would be in their minds. And they...
Daily Bible Reading, November |
So the law appointed priests. That shows people that nobody can achieve a right relationship with God by their own efforts. They must have a priest who will speak to God on their behalf. And now, the priest that God has chosen for this purpose is his Son, Jesus....
Daily Bible Reading, November |
Here is some good advice if the facts about Christ ever seem difficult to understand. We should think about Christ. We should think about his life and his death. We should think about how he became alive again after his death. And we should think about the good things...
Daily Bible Reading, November |
In a few places, the author of Hebrews warns his readers in a very severe manner. It is not pleasant to read such things. But it is necessary for us to be aware of them. The same God who offers us heaven also warns us about hell. The Bible tells us about God’s anger...
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