Date: 09/16/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: By Faith
Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-7
Description: If Jesus represents what God has done to redeem our broken relationship with him, faith is what that healed relationship looks like in us. Hebrews 11 is one of the Bible’s most beautiful descriptions of faith, and these first verses show us what it is and why it pleases God.
Date: 09/02/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Endure
Scripture: Hebrews 10:26-39
Description: Whether or not we endure in faith makes a statement about God, a statement that means life or death. We endure by fixing our hope on our true possession in Christ.
Date: 08/26/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Embrace Christian Community
Scripture: Hebrews 10:24-25
Description: Christian community is the key to holding on to faith and to living for the return of Jesus. This passage helps clarify what Christian community is and how it works.
Date: 08/19/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Hold On To Hope
Scripture: Hebrews 10:23
Description: This verse and the context it draws from help us to trust the faithfulness of God when faced with doubts of mind and soul.
Date: 08/12/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Draw Near
Scripture: Hebrews 10:19-22
Description: The truth about Jesus explained so carefully earlier in the letter is brought home here with one simple command: draw near to God. But because drawing near to God is easier spoken of than acted on, this passage helps us identify why we struggle to approach God and what we can do about it.
Date: 08/05/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Sitting And Waiting
Scripture: Hebrews 10:11-18
Description: Here, at the climax of the entire letter, we get two images that help us see that Jesus’s work for us is finished and how his work begins to change us.
Date: 07/29/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Pleasing God
Scripture: Hebrews 10:1-10
Description: We know from human relationships how disruptive it is to have displeased the other person and to know we’ve been displeasing. Israel’s relationship with God suffered from this sense that God wasn’t fully pleased with his people, and a major point of their sacrificial system was to remind them of this problem. But Jesus came to perfectly please God, to do his will once and for all, and because of Jesus we can please God too.
Date: 07/15/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Jesus And Your Future
Scripture: Hebrews 9:27-28
Description: Everyone faces a future defined by one of two realities: death and judgment, or Jesus’s death and coming redemption. What will your future be? Are you eagerly waiting for him?
Date: 07/01/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Failure, Death, And Redemption
Scripture: Hebrews 9:14-22
Description: All of us possess a moral conscience, and all of us have experienced what it is to have a defiled conscience—a conscience that tells us we have failed to meet our own standards, much less God’s. This passage explains how Jesus came to purify our consciences, to redeem us from living under the dark cloud of our failure.
Date: 06/24/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Nothing But The Blood
Scripture: Hebrews 9:1-14
Description: The next two chapters of Hebrews are all about blood. They are especially about Jesus’s blood and why his blood is more precious than any other. So why is blood so important, and what does Jesus’s blood actually accomplish?
Date: 06/17/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Promises Applied
Scripture: Hebrews 8:7-13
Description: We all want to change, Christian or not. We try to change by swapping out behaviors, but the radical message of Christianity is that change comes through a set of promises.
Date: 06/10/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Better Promises
Scripture: Hebrews 8:7-13
Description: God responds to our abandonment of him by binding himself to us with a covenant we can’t break. In his new covenant, God makes us secure by changing what we want, by satisfying us with himself, and by forgetting our sins against him.
Date: 06/03/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Shadow And Reality
Scripture: Hebrews 8:1-6
Description: Hebrews is a letter full of comparisons, especially comparisons between what Jesus has accomplished and what the system of Moses was meant to provide. This passage introduces two new comparisons that are central in the chapters to come: the new tabernacle, or where Jesus intercedes for us; and the new covenant, or how Jesus intercedes for us.
Date: 05/27/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Why A Permanent Priest Is Good News
Scripture: Hebrews 7:23-28
Description: Hebrews 7, the most challenging section of this letter, has offered a host of minute and obscure details to show that Jesus’s priesthood will last forever. Now, at the end of the chapter, we’re told why this is such good news.
Date: 05/20/12
Speaker: Bill Heerman
Title: The Priesthood of Christ and the Power of an Indestructible Life
Scripture: Hebrews 7:11-22
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Date: 05/13/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Order Of Melchizedek
Scripture: Hebrews 7:1-10
Description: Why do we need a priest? And why does it matter that Jesus is a priest like Melchizedek? Hebrews 7, the meat of this letter, introduces the mysterious beauty of Jesus’s priesthood.
Date: 05/06/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Our Immovable Anchor
Scripture: Hebrews 6:13-20
Description: Few of us would likely claim what makes us confident in the gospel’s promises is the fact that God swore an oath. But this passage suggests that’s precisely how God intended to give us stronger hope and unshakeable confidence. So how does God’s oath make us secure?
Date: 04/29/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Genuine Christianity
Scripture: Hebrews 6:9-12
Description: Because the power of the gospel transforms, genuine followers of Jesus bear certain marks. This passage presents three of these marks—love, faith, and patience—and why they’re so important.
Date: 04/22/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Warning
Scripture: Hebrews 6:4-8
Description: In one of the most difficult and controversial passages in the entire New Testament, the author of Hebrews warns of the irreversible consequences of falling away from Jesus. What is the nature, purpose, and proper effect of this harsh warning?
Date: 04/15/12
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Spiritual Maturity
Scripture: Hebrews 5:11-6:3
Description: Spiritual growth came no easier for the earliest Christians than it comes for us. This passage helps us understand what holds us back from spiritual maturity and how we can press on towards it.
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