Forward-Looking, Forward-Thinking Faith
Hebrews 11:8 (CSB)
“By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.”
Faith as Trust, Not Control
Hebrews 11:1–2 (CSB)
“Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. For by this our ancestors were approved.”
Because He Is Risen — He Has the Power to Help Me Recover
Because He lives, He has the power—and that power is enough for your recovery.
Sanctified by Christ’s One Sacrifice (part two of two)
Hebrews 10:22 (CSB)
“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.”
Sanctified by Christ’s One Sacrifice (part one of two)
Hebrews 10:1 (CSB)
1Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.
The Steps and the One Who Redeems
Hebrews 9:16–17 (CSB)
Where a will exists, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will is valid only when people die, since it is never in effect while the one who made it is living.
The Season of Light
Genesis 1:3-5 (courtesy of The Message)
“3God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared.
4God saw that light was good and separated light from dark.
5God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning— Day One.”
Grateful for the “second room”
Hebrews 9:7 (CSB)
But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.