Posts with the tag “hebrews”

INTRODUCTIONThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN QUESTIONSAs you gather with your group or study partner, take some time to reflect on how you experienced God this past week. Share b...  Read More

(Hebrews 4:12-13)For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.I'll never forget the day I received that call....  Read More

(Hebrews 4:1-11)God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God. For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God...  Read More

(Hebrews 3:12-19)Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God. You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in ...  Read More

(Hebrews 3:1-11)And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest. For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God’s entire house.But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds...  Read More

Did you miss this week's sermon?  Or maybe you just want to listen again to catch something you heard and want to think about again.  Here is your chance to review this weekend's sermon.  Feel free to leave your comments and thoughts!...  Read More

INTRODUCTIONThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion between you and the person you’re studying with or with your Connect Group. Feel free to add, subtract, or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPEN QUESTIONSAs you gather with your group or study partner, take some time to reflect on how you experienced God this past week. Share b...  Read More

(Hebrews 2:11-18)So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. For he said to God,“I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters.    I will praise you among your assembled people.”He also said,“I will put my trust in him,”    that is, “I and the children God has given me.”Because God’s children are human...  Read More

(Hebrews 2:5-10)And furthermore, it is not angels who will control the future world we are talking about. For in one place the Scriptures say,“What are mere mortals that you should think about them,    or a son of man that you should care for him?Yet for a little while you made them a little lower than the angels    and crowned them with glory and honor.You gave them authority over all things.”Now...  Read More

(Hebrews 2:1-4)So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it. For the message God delivered through angels has always stood firm, and every violation of the law and every act of disobedience was punished. So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by t...  Read More

(Hebrews 1:5-14)For God never said to any angel what he said to Jesus:“You are my Son.    Today I have become your Father.”God also said,“I will be his Father,    and he will be my Son.”And when he brought his supreme Son into the world, God said,[d]“Let all of God’s angels worship him.”Regarding the angels, he says,“He sends his angels like the winds,    his servants like flames of fire.”But to t...  Read More

(Hebrews 1:1-4)Long ago God spoke many times and in many ways to our ancestors through the prophets. And now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe. The Son radiates God’s own glory and expresses the very character of God, and he sustains everything by the mighty power of his comman...  Read More

I sit in a room filled with people anticipating the moment the letter will be delivered. Times have been tough lately and maybe, just maybe, what I will hear in a short moment will be just what I need. Because truly, this could be the end.I look around the room and see faces of people I once knew as great friends but now may be something different. Tragedy and danger have a way of changing the way...  Read More

INTRODUCTIONThe following is a guide to help facilitate discussion. Feel free to add or subtract or change questions to fit the conversation, and pray for the Spirit to lead in all things.OPENCan you remember a time as a kid when you’re mom or dad did something for you in public that in retrospect, they did out of love for you, but at the time was horribly embarrassing?HEADRead John 15:13, Galatia...  Read More

Hebrews 12:5-115 And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children? He said, “My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline,  and don’t give up when he corrects you.6 For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child. 7 As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever hear...  Read More

Hebrews 12:1-212 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. 2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.Because of the joy awaiting him, he endu...  Read More