Between now and our upcoming Lenten Devotional Series “Revelation in 40” we are looking at New Year resolutions from the Book of Hebrews. It’s February now and most people have long forgotten their resolutions. Not me because ours come from Scripture and are timeless: Pay Careful Attention. Fix Your Eyes on Jesus. Don’t Harden Your […]
Have you ever noticed there are naysayers and black-pill dispensers everywhere who attempt to snuff out any smidgen of hope that things will get better? They can make us feel like God doesn’t care because the struggles of this earth, well … they just keep on struggling. Into that darkness, God speaks assurance, competence, and […]
It may seem like a no-brainer, but Today is always Today. Today is not Yesterday for which opportunities are over and never to be identically repeated. Time was poured out and never will be reclaimed. Yesterday, it was full of its mistakes and excuses, troubles and worries, regrets, failures, words we never should have spoken […]
We are supposed to be people working to gain new followers for Christ along the way, and then all Christ-followers entering God’s rest by His grace. Our faith in action. Maybe it’s silly, the chuckle I get out of this imaginary meme portrayal of God appearing on a podcast, being interviewed by Steve Bannon who […]
All the accolades one might have received, congratulations on a job well done, successes galore, fastest running speed, hope of crossing the finish line with a vision of the checkered flag finale, are completely ruined if one doesn’t finish well. It doesn’t matter how well a race you were running if you didn’t finish. No […]
Hebrews 3:7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, 9 where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. 10 That is why […]
Looking at the second New Year Resolution from the Book of Hebrews, “Fix Your Thoughts On Jesus”, it’s grounded in something important. At the end of verse one, it says that we acknowledge Jesus as our apostle and high priest. Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your […]
The Book of Hebrews offers us a second New Year Resolution: Fix Your Thoughts on Jesus. Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. I don’t know about you, but I think it really shouldn’t be […]
We should pay careful attention so that we don’t drift, that’s what the Book of Hebrews tells us is a good resolution. The command has always been very simple: “Listen to Him” (that is, Jesus). It gets more imperative when we remember that all 3 “Persons” of the Trinity are at work here. Jesus’ words […]
It’s not always easy resolving to “Pay Careful Attention” as we saw with our first New Year Resolution from the Book of Hebrews. Beyond the distractions of pleasure, curiosity, or fear, sometimes the instructions or the Word of guidance are just tough to swallow. Take this one for example. Mark 8:34 Then Jesus called the […]
