ARCC Sermons

We have been sent out with a heavenly calling that is greater than any internal calling we feel pressured to fulfill. In this heavenly calling, we become part of the house God is building. It is a house Moses was a faithful servant in and a house Christ is faithful over as a son.

In this text we see the inextricable link between our faith and our faith family. There seems to be a level of comfort, thanksgiving, and joy that we simply cannot attain on our own. All of this is bound up in the reality that we need each other to build up our faith in the areas that we are lacking.

Jesus as our Savior is better news than we tend to comprehend. It is truly fitting, as the writer tells us that our Jesus, the author of our salvation, would be made perfect through suffering. The idea of Jesus being “perfected” is certainly a provocative one, but we will see that it is the greatest news ever.

The writer starts Hebrews by answering the most important question anyone could possibly ask: Who is Jesus? In this text the writer seems to answer or begin to answer the question that everyone seems to be asking. If Jesus is God and He is in control then why the suffering and chaos?

God has promised to preserve His own and one of the ways He does this is through severe warnings. From our perspective we find confidence and assurance when such texts in scripture jolt our heart and mind back into focus.

The writer of Hebrews spends a significant amount of space making sure everyone knows that Jesus is superior to angels. In the process we learn that the glorious and the mundane are coming together to produce that which God desires to produce in us.

The writer of Hebrews wastes no time answering the most important question in the world: Who is Jesus? The claims of scripture regarding Jesus are so outrageously beyond anything that people then and now could surmise on their own. If such claims were true then the reality of being associated with this Jesus would change everything.

There has never been a moment in history where man did not need God’s revelation. We learn from the Psalmist that your view of the word has everything to do with your relationship to the Word.

On Sunday we make all the same proclamations that the Psalmist makes. Monday comes to see if we meant what we said. The Psalmist reminds us that the good fight is a war that we were equipped and chosen to fight by the grace of God.

After a prolonged explanation of all God had been to him and had done for him, David speaks of his righteousness. Like Noah and Abraham before him, David's righteousness is not of his own, but it is a righteousness that comes by faith. It did not originate in him, but was given to him. This is what it means that the "the righteousness of God is revealed from faith."