Text: Hebrews 13:8-16 Theme: True worship that involves our whole lives as a sacrifice can be dangerous and disgraceful. Key verses: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So do not be attracted by strange new ideas…We have an altar from which the priests in the Tabernacle have no right to eat. Under ...
Text: Hebrews 13:7 Theme: Remember those who taught us and showed us how to live for Christ. Key verses: “Remember your leaders who taught you the word of God. Think of all the good that has come from their lives, and follow the example of their faith” (v. 7). What God said to me: Time ...
Text: Hebrews 13:1-6 Theme: We should choose to love others with empathy and satisfaction. Key verses: “Keep on loving others as brothers and sisters. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself. Remember also ...
Text: Hebrews 12:18-28 Theme: When the heavens and earth are shaken, only God’s Kingdom and His true worshipers will be remain unshaken. Key verses: “You have not come to a physical mountain, to a place of flaming fire, darkness, gloom, and whirlwind, as the Israelites did at Mount Sinai” (v. 18). “No, you have come ...
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 ...
