Reading: Hebrews 11:1-16Speaker: Tim Mountain This Week’s Thoughts Some words are like cream cakes. If you have them too frequently, you forget what was so special about them the first time. And in extreme cases when they are repeated ad nauseam, you can become sick of them altogether. For example: love, joy, grace, mercy, salvation. …
Readings: Hebrews 10:1-18Speaker: Paul McCabe This Week’s Thoughts ‘Judas went out, and it was night’ (John 13:13). Boy, was it ever. Looking back on that fateful last supper with his Lord, John hit the nail right on the head. He remembered Judas leaving and it all clicked into place. John knew that that night had …
Readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34 & Hebrews 8Speaker: Paul McCabe This Week’s Thoughts I saw a film once that was loosely based on Greek myth. It wasn’t particularly good, and I can’t remember much of the plot, but there are two things from it that I can recall: that it starred Liam Neeson as Zeus, and that …
Speaker: Genesis Acaye from BMSReadings: Exodus 13:3; Deuteronomy 8:2; Psalm 77:11-12 This Week’s Thoughts God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. Goodness is an essential characteristic of God. He is not evil, nor can He be tempted with evil (James 1:13). One way that God made this goodness known …
Reading: Hebrews 5-6Speaker: Paul McCabe This Week’s Thoughts When Psalm 110 declares the coming Messiah to be ‘a priest forever’ (Psalm 110:4), an important distinction is made, one which the author of Hebrews sees as significant enough to quote and repeat multiple times between chapters five and seven. The Messiah, whom we are blessed to …
Reading: Hebrews 5:1-10Speaker: Paul McCabe This Week’s Thoughts When we talk about priests today, we think of different things. Some picture a man in a robe or a backwards collar who goes around blessing people, passing out religious elements, or performing certain rituals. But if you’re currently reading Leviticus – or if you’ve skipped ahead …