Yesterday I rambled on and on about the importance of ascending the mountain for ourselves. I talked about how great the new covenant is that we get to go into God’s presence through the new and living way opened for us through the flesh of Jesus. A promise so great as that, however, comes with […]

Christianity is very bloody. It seems like we’re always talking about the blood of Jesus and the blood of the old covenant. For Pete’s sake, we drink a blood substitute every time we take communion, which is every week at our church. It’s all about the blood.  In vs. 24 of this chapter, the author […]

The author has spent all this time, making this incredibly dense and well thought out argument about why the readers shouldn’t turn from Christ. Then, today, we get to these 6 verses and he crams in about 6 weeks worth of sermon material. I’m going to do my best to expound on each idea just […]

Today’s passage addresses one of the great misconceptions in the church today. For some reason, somewhere along the way, Christians started believing that coming to Christ meant that everything in life was going to get better. All our problems would go away and “there shall be showers of blessing, this is the promise of love” […]

A few years ago, apparently I had an anxiety attack. The thing was, I didn’t really feel anxious. I didn’t even necessarily feel stressed out. I was busy. I definitely had a lot on my plate, but I wouldn’t have described myself as being anxious. The only real thing that was different was that I […]

Like the author of Hebrews, we don’t have time to talk about all the examples of Faith in this great chapter.   But, we should pay attention to some of the names: Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah and David. Who were they?  Gideon was afraid. He was hiding when the Lord called him to lead an army. […]

As I shared yesterday from Philip Yancey: “Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” It’s so very true.  As I was enduring the most difficult ministry experience of my life, I couldn’t see what God was doing. All I could feel the was the pain of the present. It was shortly […]

It’s such a crazy story. Abraham was 100 when he had Isaac. God had given him a promise many years prior to Isaac being born that he would be the father of many nations and have descendants as numerous as the stars. After waiting for years, he finally has a son at 100, his wife […]

Since I got all soapboxy on you yesterday, we actually need to go back and look at faith. The author gives us the best definition of faith we find in scripture: “Faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”  What is faith? Is it wishful thinking? […]

Can you imagine how crazy it would be to build an ark?  Luckily we don’t have to imagine all that hard. Not only do we have Evan Almighty and Hollywood’s depiction of what it would be like to build an ark today, someone actually built an ark, today. The Ark Encounter in Williamstown, KY was […]