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“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to…

“The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless…

“Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time…

My husband and I have partnered with a wonderful organization called Ambassadors to the Nations. We learned about them while attending Andrew Wommack’s Gospel Truth Seminar in Kansas City several years back. While there, we heard the founders, Karen and Darey Jolley speak of their work in South America, mainly Nicaragua and Mexico. They work with poor children and their families to provide them with schooling, food, love and the gospel of Jesus Christ. “For $10 a month, or two cups of Starbucks coffee”, Karen jokes, “you can really make a difference in the lives of others”. Ten dollars is all it takes to sponsor a child through school and provide them with a meal. For many of them, this is their only source of food for the day. In comparison to what we enjoy in the United States the question becomes, “how can we not afford this?” While there…

“First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” (although the law required them to be made). Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the…

“Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to…

“But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” ( Hebrews 10:3-4 ) One thing about the law was that it was great about building anticipation to the time of Christ. I imagine that every…

“The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For…

I recently read the story of David and Goliath and as I read I got caught up in the drama of the Bible story unfolding before me.  However, on this particular day the story took on a different twist. For the majority of my life, I remember the lesson being on David, how he battled the giant and how his faith in the Lord was enough to defeat Goliath with five little stones. It is no doubt that David had great faith because he knew the Lord and knew He would be faithful to His promises. However this time as I reread the story, in stark contrast to David’s faith, I saw the lack of faith that the entire Israelite army had. This caused them to endure the endless ridicule from Goliath and the Philistines. The Israelites were under the same covenant as David, yet it did not have the…

“Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him” (…

“Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared…

“It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to…

“When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you…

I grew up going to Awana kid’s club every Wednesday night from the age of 3 or 4 far into my teenage years. My brothers, sister and I spent countless hours, memorizing Scripture verses to recite to our leaders each week. It is a real blessing now to have this arsenal of memory verses ingrained into the recesses of my mind. I recall them frequently and they both encourage and bless me while navigating life. One of the many other things that I took away from my early years in Awanas was the definition to many words and concepts found in the Bible. I remember having to memorize the meaning of words like propitiation, which at this point in my life makes me smile thinking of a 10 year old learning something like that. Perhaps the understanding of these words didn’t come until later in life, however I am thankful…

“In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. This is why even the first covenant was…