Hebrews 13:20-25 // At the end of Hebrews, we find a prayer that an exclamatory truth (Jesus lives!) leads to an exclamatory result (you can please God!) and an exclamatory response (Praise Jesus, forever Amen!).

Hebrews 13:1-6 // If we are the inheritors of an unshakable kingdom—what are the ethics of that kingdom? With brotherly, familial love, which leads to hospitality for those outside the kingdom, a concern for the justice of the oppressed, a high regard for the glory of marriage, a freedom from love of money, and a confidence in God's help.

Hebrews 12:18-29 // All throughout Hebrews, we have seen two ways to come to God. In this passage, the two ways are represented by Sinai (the shakable way) and Zion (the unshakable way). What are the markers of trying to come to God by way of Sinai, and why is the way of Zion so much better?

Hebrews 12:3-17 // God’s great comfort to us—the evidence that he is for us and working in us to make sure we make it to the end and achieve our prize of life with him—is his discipline. We can endure and even rejoice in his discipline because it teaches us to trust him as Father, it shapes us to share in his holiness, and it prepares us to make it to the end together.

Hebrews 12:1-2 // Life is a race—but not just any race—it's an agonizing struggle. In order to make it to the end to see God, we need endurance, but our problem is our fragility, our natural inclination to blame-shift, heap-on, and quick-fix. If we are going to run well, we must fix our eyes on the ultimate goal of life: Jesus Christ who has gone before.

2 Samuel 7:1-22 // God's gifts to us prepare us to give back to God, and our gifts to God prepare us to receive even more gifts from God. 

Hebrews 11 // Faith is the common ground we all stand on, Faith precedes outcomes, Faith is our contribution to God’s redeeming story, and Faith endures us through difficulty and suffering.

Hebrews 1:1-6 // What is faith? The writer to the Hebrews gives the church a two-old response, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Heb. 11:1) Faith is forward and future, it gives substance to our hope. Faith is why Christian hope is more than wishful thinking on a cosmic scale. Faith is also holistic and demonstrative. Faith pulls events of the witnessed (testified) past through to the unseen events that belong to God’s promised future. Faith in this way is living in this moment between God’s faithful past, and his promised future.

Hebrews 10:26-39 // The Christian life is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are in need of endurance. This text shows us three necessary steps for endurance in Christ to the end: 1) know the stakes; 2) recall the race; 3) trust the righteous one.

Hebrews 10:19-25 // In Christ, we have both access to God directly, and a great Advocate to help us in our time of need. Knowing this, we can be confident to draw near to God by faith, hold fast our hope in the gospel, and stir one another up towards love and good works.