There is no end to what Scripture can do when it comes to speaking to the moment. Every moment is

a spiritual moment and created to be a God-moment in which we can experience what makes everything run. Scripture is a treasure of constant heart-moving inspiration for every next moment. That is, if you are open to its message for the moment, open to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit behind and in its words. Just as the Spirit was hovering as described in…

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Hebrews 2-3

Chapter 1 establishes the superiority of Jesus as Lord and the One through whom Creation came into being. He is God the Son, the exact representation of His being. The place of

angels is summed up in vs.14. They are

ministering spirits to those who will inherit salvation. Further in 2:2 they are ministering

servants. They carry the message, the

Word of God, they were present with Moses at the giving of the Law…

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When the word ‘priest’ flashes across a page or a TV screen the immediate thought is a collared black suit from one of the liturgical denominations. For a moment cancel those images, close your eyes and imagine yourself just cresting a hill while walking through a green meadow in old Galilee and running across a group of people sitting, intently listening to a bearded young man teaching. As you come closer there is a sense of

inclusion.…

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Hebrews, Why It Such An Important Epistle To Study

One of the great contributions of the Epistle to the Hebrews is its message to believers in every century. That message is simple. Jesus is the ever-present eternal reality and hope for every mind, heart and spirit and therefore the underlying reality to which every theme in the epistle points. Whatever you do, if you value… Continue

I Was Wrong, Back Then

I thought I was

Abandoned, bereft, a cast-off

By You, My…

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That’s the snide remark you get sometimes when objecting to surrounding obscene language and crude humor. It’s not comfortable and you stand to be ridiculed. But look at that question again. Are you holy or something? Well everybody is ‘something’ but are you holy? That is the question and hopefully you have an answer. It depends first on your attitude, the way you take a remark, secondly, pausing to think what it really…

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When You Get Right Down To It

“Stick with what you learned and believed, sure of the integrity of your teachers—why, you took in the sacred Scriptures with your mother's milk! There's nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the

way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of…

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Have you ever felt the need to atone for something you’ve done? What atone means is to make up for something that shouldn’t have been done, something that has brought with it a sense of guilt. We want to atone, make up, for past mistakes. This mistake prone nature we have is due to sin and its inevitable consequence, guilt, which we inherited from the initial act of disobedience Adam and Eve committed. It is not unusual to hear someone say they feel guilty even though they don’t know why. It’s… Continue