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Today’s Reflection: “Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one [...]
Read Hebrews 13 “For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.” (Hebrews 13:14) Thoughts… After serving as a missionary for forty years in Africa, Henry C. Morrison became sick and had to return to America. As the great ocean liner [...]
Read Hebrews 12 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” (Hebrews 12:1-2) Thoughts… Hebrews was written to 1st century [...]
Read Hebrews 11 “By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.” (Hebrews 11:31) Thoughts… Now there’s something you don’t hear in the same sentence very often: faith and prostitutes. But that’s what so great about faith: It transforms prostitutes—and every [...]
Read Hebrews 10 “But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.” (Hebrews 10:39) Thoughts… The first thing I saw in the headlines early this morning was “Wall Street In A Freefall!” The byline went on to say that [...]
Read Hebrews 9 “Christ will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.” (Hebrews 9:28) Thoughts… The Bible is full of promises—hundreds, perhaps thousands of them—that God has made to his children. Not all of them have been fulfilled, [...]
Read Hebrews 8 “They [the Jewish High Priests] serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you [...]
Ray Noah
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