Sermon Intro: God’s mighty act of redemption, which the writer of Hebrews speaks about in our passage, made God’s OT people sing for joy. Over and over, they remembered with thanksgiving how God uniquely chose them in love, how he spared them from his...

Sermon Intro: God’s mighty act of redemption, which the writer of Hebrews speaks about in our passage, made God’s OT people sing for joy. Over and over, they remembered with thanksgiving how God uniquely chose them in love, how he spared them from his...

Sermon Intro: But…Genesis shows that Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph did not arrive at persevering faith easily! In each case, faith grew like a plant struggling ever so slowly out of the soil of weaknesses, willfulness, and wickedness. But our covenant God...

Sermon Intro: But…Genesis shows that Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph did not arrive at persevering faith easily! In each case, faith grew like a plant struggling ever so slowly out of the soil of weaknesses, willfulness, and wickedness. But our covenant God...

Sermon Intro: As we walk with God, he tests our spiritual stamina and faith. And why? Because he disciplines and trains the child he loves. He’s committed to helping us grow. Increasingly, he’s weaning us from finding our chief delight in things other...

Sermon Intro: As we walk with God, he tests our spiritual stamina and faith. And why? Because he disciplines and trains the child he loves. He’s committed to helping us grow. Increasingly, he’s weaning us from finding our chief delight in things other...

Sermon Intro: If God gave to the fathers of our faith only a taste of that grace which he has poured out on us in Christ, if they saw only an obscure picture of Christ, who is now set clearly before our eyes in the word of God, and yet they were...

Sermon Intro: If God gave to the fathers of our faith only a taste of that grace which he has poured out on us in Christ, if they saw only an obscure picture of Christ, who is now set clearly before our eyes in the word of God, and yet they were...