Category: Scripture

You just have to have faith! We've all heard this at one time or another, and sometimes these words, or something like them, are offered with the intent to be an encouragement, but often feel hollow and empty. The author of Hebrews comes to a discussion of faith in Chapter 11, and to understand its [...]

Here at Easter, 2019, it is fitting that we come to Hebrews 10, the conclusion of the Hebrews author's discussion of the sufficiency of Jesus' sacrifice. As we'll see in Chapters 11-13, his argument will shift from that of bolstering the idea that Jesus is the great high priest to offering encouragement of perseverance to [...]

In Chapter 9, the author of Hebrews continues the point he was making in Chapter 8 (discussed in the last Hebrews blog) - namely that the new covenant, as revealed through Jesus, is superior to the old covenant (as revealed through Moses). 1 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly [...]

In Chapter 8, the author continues his main objective for the entire book - discussing the superiority of Jesus. So far he has proposed that Jesus is superior to all creation, to angels, to Moses, and to any high priest who has ever lived. In Chapter 7 he identified Jesus as the one that Psalm [...]