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Better. Now there’s a word we’re constantly thinking about. Many seek to have a better marriage, better health, a better work-life balance, and a better spiritual life. Those are all noble pursuits. But what if there was a better better? We’ll explore...

Spend enough time with small children and you might suddenly appreciate more the company of adults. But among those who may have left childhood behind, something of value might’ve been lost, too. Of late we’ve heard from the author of Hebrews his...

Great art–story, music, film–has the common feature of hinting at something early which it then discloses in time. As in art, so in Scripture–so the Lord. A name hinted at several times in this letter is now disclosed more fully. But what he discloses...

Hebrews 6: Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things — things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints...

The ancients called it “acedia,” a Latin word for apathy and malaise–a spiritual condition you could compare with when you gorge yourself on food and your body’s attempts to process all that food makes you lethargic. Without taking a breath, our...

“Grow up.” Nobody likes to hear those words. But the author of Hebrews didn’t hesitate to call out spiritual immaturity in the first century church. Just as a parent will encourage their children to grow and mature, we are shown the problem with and...

We long to be understood–deeply and without condemnation despite our weakness and all we regret. We gravitate toward those who exhibit that kind of interested and kindly posture; we nearly end up revering them, almost like they were a kind of priest...

It is sought not only in those privileged times of vacation. We seek it in our work. We seek it in the ordinariness of life. I’m talking about rest. More than mere disengagement, rest is something inward. One way we think of the worthiness of Jesus...

From the moment you’re born, life is a struggle. Not all lives have the same struggle, but all lives struggle. So all lives press upon us the need to persevere, and something must give us a reason to persevere. The author of Hebrews writes to those...

In Christ we see a worthy life and in turn find a life worthy of His and of life itself. What about a worthy death? Is there such a thing? What is one? Is that one more expectation we might fail and only compound our regret and guilt? Can one even...