Category Archives: Hebrews

No messing around with greetings . . . no words wasted on customary introductions . . . the writer to Hebrews just gets at it. There is an anticipation every time I enter this book . . . a looking … Continue reading →

Left to myself . . . going with just my natural inclination, I’m not really a “swim upstream” sort of person. I don’t like to make waves . . . pretty content to go with the flow. Despite what sometimes … Continue reading →

Hebrews is the book that just “keeps on giving.” Just when you think you’ve reached the apex . . . there’s more mountain to behold . . . just when you think you’re stuffed from all the food you’ve taken … Continue reading →

One of the first things we did when we got our GPS was to program the “HOME” function . . . not because we don’t know where home is . . . but because we know that no matter where … Continue reading →

So often, the New Testament writers were corner men. You know, those guys with the towels on their shoulders and the water bottle in their hands who wait for the bell to ring between rounds of a boxing match and … Continue reading →

A friend commented on my post yesterday and offered this summary of the book of Hebrews . . . “The whole book of Hebrews is kind of a taste test comparison (Coke/Pepsi?) by someone who has known, loved and been … Continue reading →

Jesus is a priest forever. That’s what the writer to the Hebrews emphasizes this morning. Jesus is foreshadowed in a guy that Abraham ran across almost 2,000 years before Christ entered this world, Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the … Continue reading →

My kids loved picture books. You know those big, over-sized children’s books that cared less about narrating a story but instead captured the imagination with full-page graphics and photos. It seemed they never got tired of them . . . … Continue reading →