Text: Hebrews 12:12-17 Theme: Holiness takes deliberate work and care. Key verses: “So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong. Work at living in peace with everyone, ...
Text: Hebrews 12:5-11 Theme: God disciplines us to make us more like him. Key verses: “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. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, ...
Text: Hebrews 12:1-4 Theme: We each have a race to endure. Key verses: “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 ...
Text: Hebrews 11:17-40 Theme: God’s people follow Him because they believe His promises to them. Key verses: “It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac” (v. 17). “Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, ...
Text: Hebrews 11:7-16 Theme: As foreigners here, we must have faith for a better place. Key verses: “…By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith (v. 7b). “And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith–for he was ...
Text: Hebrews 11:2-6 Theme: Faith is required for a proper perspective of the universe and us. Key verses: Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that ...
Text: Hebrews 11:1 Theme: Faith is required for true, biblical hope. Key verse: “Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see” (NLT). “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (NASB). “Now faith is the confidence in what ...
Text: Hebrews 10:32-36 Theme: Patient endurance brings great reward. Key verses: “Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering” (v. 32b). “…You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever. So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! ...
Text: Hebrews 10:26-31 Theme: Expect judgment for deliberate sin. Key verses: “Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies” ...