Parents place many restrictions on their children out of love. In Malachi God reveals Himself as a loving Father who confronts, corrects, rebukes, and challenges His people when they stray.

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.

We become aware of God's grace toward us, and either we feel gratitude or we are ungrateful. The question is; are you aware of the good that has been done for you or how aware are you?

Is it appropriate for us to conclude the Lord’s Prayer with the traditional phrase; “For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen"?

The primary strategy of Satan is to deceive; he lies to us about what will bring satisfaction and where true happiness is to be found.

How then does the Father deliver us?

How are believers to treat the ongoing reality of temptation and sin?

Are we meant to just ignore it? Should we pretend sin doesn’t exist, dusting ourselves off after each fall and denying that anything happened? Or are we are meant to drag ourselves through life under the constant weight of guilt and shame?

For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head...

Standards of social acceptance are shifting quickly away from traditional values, and more so from the biblical world view. On this shifting moral landscape, where are we as Christians to plant our feet?

Understand our sin as debt we discover that God does not sit down with us to work out a payment plan. He offers full and free forgiveness. Those of us who are in Christ have our whole debt cancelled!