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Hebrews 4:14-16: Holding Fast and Drawing Near Because we have a Great High Priest
We have no idea how unworthy we actually are to stand in the presence of a holy God, Nick says, and yet we often act as though God should be grateful we believe in him...
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Hebrews 4:11-13: Heeding God’s Word
God’s word is like a Swiss army knife, Nick says, a tool fit for every purpose, breathed out by God and profitable for every situation life throws at us. He works through Hebrews’ picture of...
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Hebrews 4:1-10: Entering God’s Rest
We talk a lot about justifying faith, receiving Christ’s righteousness as a free gift, Nick says, but not nearly as much about persevering faith, the faith that keeps enduring. He works through Hebrews’ warning not...
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Hebrews 3:7-19: An Evil Unbelieving Heart
At the heart of what sin actually is, is lawlessness, Nick says, refusing our creatureliness and God’s right to rule. He works through Hebrews’ warning against an evil, unbelieving heart that hardens itself against God...
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Hebrews 3:1-6: Considering Jesus in Order to Hold Fast
The cure for apostasy is considering Jesus, Nick says, which means the cause of apostasy is the opposite: taking our eyes off him and putting them somewhere else. He works through Hebrews’ call to fix...
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Hebrews 2:14-18: ‘He had to be Made Like His Brothers.’
Some truths are inconvenient but absolutely necessary to our salvation, Nick says, truths we don’t believe because we’re gullible but because Scripture reveals them clearly. He works through Hebrews’ insistence that Christ had to become...
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Hebrews 2:10-13: ‘It Was the Will of the Lord to Crush Him’
Why do people today find it impossible to believe in Jesus? Nick asks, running through common stumbling blocks, from a literal Adam and Eve to Jesus’s own teaching on hell. He works through Hebrews’ unflinching...
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Hebrews 2:5-9: Seeing Jesus For Who He Is
Suffering, with all its raw nerve endings, is one of the most common things that causes believers to doubt, Nick says, partly because pain demands all our attention. He works through Hebrews’ call to see...
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Hebrews 2:1-4: The First Exhortation
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love, Nick quotes from the hymn Come Thou Fount. He works through Hebrews’ first warning against drifting away from what we’ve heard,...
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Hebrews 1:4-14: The Son’s Superiority to Angels
Last Monday was Michaelmas on the Catholic calendar, the feast of St. Michael and all angels, Nick notes. He works through Hebrews’ argument for why the Son, not any angel, is the one worthy of...
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Hebrews 1:2b-3: The Sufficiency of the Son
Who is Jesus? Nick asks, running through competing answers: a prophet to Islam, the archangel Michael to Jehovah’s Witnesses, an enlightened teacher to the New Age movement. He works through Hebrews’ own answer, the exact...
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Hebrews 1:1-2a: ‘This is My Beloved Son…Listen to Him’
Every book of the Bible is a joy to preach, Nick says, but some are especially daunting and rewarding at once, and Hebrews is one of them. He opens a new series in Hebrews by...