Chapter 5: Jesus our great High Priest is so intimately aware of our weakness and vulnerabilities, as he became fully human. The writer of this letter develops and extends our understanding of Jesus in his humanity without ever diminishing his identity as God the Son.

#highpriest #jesuschrist #humanity #divinity #intercession #hebrews 

The science of climate change has taken on a deeply moral tone in recent years; even adopting religious language in the endeavour to activate the consciences of climate transgressors. We take a look at the prophets, experts and sacred texts of this popular eschatology.

#eschatology #climatechange #recycling #massextinction #populationcontrol #endtimes #environment #planet #virtuesignalling

Chapter 4. The writer of this amazing letter stresses the urgency of Today. He urges us, the readers, to respond to God's invitation to enter his Rest. Today. Jesus has done all the hard work. He has made a way. We come because Jesus invites us.

#hebrews #rest #invitation #today #jesus

Chapter 3. We discover how the process of drifting can lead to us hardening our hearts to God's voice. The  writer uses a powerful example from Israel's history to illustrate just how much we can lose by allowing our hearts to harden.

#israel #hardheart #drifting #voiceofgod #encouragement #hebrews

We discover that Jesus is amazingly fully human, yet fully God. By virtue of his humanity he is able to be a High Priest who fully knows what it is to be human; having fully experienced human suffering; yet he is also able to be the exactly perfect sacrifice to pay for all of our sin debt.

#propitiation #sacrifice #jesus #highpriest #suffering #human #divine #hebrews

This amazing book shines like a polished jewel from the pages of the New Testament. It speaks to us in the 21st Century as powerfully as it spoke to its audience almost 2000 years ago. Join me as we consider the identity of Jesus, revealed by the mysterious, yet profoundly inspired writer of the book addressed to the First Century Hebrews.

#hebrews #christology #theology #christ #messiah

Jihad has been slightly less in the news lately, although is currently very much centre stage in certain African nations. We explore how jihadist groups are driven by an interpretation of Islamic eschatology. We discover how some threads of belief seem similar to Jewish and Christian ideas and where they part company.

#eschatology #jihad #islam #christian #mahdi #messiah #jesuschrist #endtimes

Dilshan Fernando is a pastor and church planter in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. He is also a business leader and entrepreneur. Join me as he tells his story and shares his secrets of running businesses as a disciple of Jesus.

#business #marketplaceleader #ministry #churchplanting #srilanka #colombo

Everyone believes something about the end of human life on earth. Even people who hold no religious beliefs believe something. Eschatology is the study of the end times. Join Pete Millner and myself as we explore just how mainstream and influential different eschatological beliefs are - right now - in the 21st Century.

#eschatology #endtimes #religion #climatechange #jihad #revelation #christianity #prepper #doomsday 

Andreii, a young Ukrainian soldier was fighting for the town of Solidar at night when he was shot in the leg above the knee. His story of his rescue is a story of true heroism and sacrificial friendship.

#solidar #heroism #warinukraine #soldier #sacrifice