Category Archives: Hebrews

Run the Race, Realize the Promises

In Hebrews 12 this morning I’m reminded that I need to look to Jesus, the author and finisher of my faith . . . that I need to lay aside every weight and sin which can so easily trip me … Continue reading

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Homeland Security

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

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The Fuel of Endurance

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

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The Justice Bringer

“Behold My Servant” . . . that’s how my reading in Isaiah 42 began this morning . . . three words that capture your attention . . . a heavenly “Heads Up!” . . . a spiritual “awakening.” Here’s what … Continue reading

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The Point

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

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Saved to the Uttermost!

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

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Moving Beyond Picture Books

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

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Been There!

Captured by a phrase this morning. One of those truths that I can so easily blow by. One of those things I’ve known for decades but which, as I think about it, so rarely really grips my being. One of … Continue reading

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Today

They were a stubborn people. They had a long history of rejecting God’s direction and instead relying on their own intuition . . . for ignoring His way and instead leaning to the way of their own understanding. Even when … Continue reading

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Calls Me Brother

It was a year ago today that we were abruptly ushered into our current season. After my readings this morning I couldn’t help but pull up the e-mails of a year ago and read through them. E-mails to a network … Continue reading

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