Redeemed from Your Transgressions

Redeemed from Your Transgressions

Hebrews 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. You have been redeemed from your transgressions. That means someone paid the price for your sins. Transgression is likened...
Full Family Benefits

Full Family Benefits

Hebrews 9:15 Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. You get full family...
Jesus Never Changes

Jesus Never Changes

I grew up in churches with wooden tables placed right under the pulpit. It was where they placed elements for communion and flowers for funerals. On the front lip was inscribed today’s passage. Hebrews 13:8 was one of the first verses I became familiar with as I...
Remember Those Who Struggle

Remember Those Who Struggle

The criminal justice system is a tough place to exist. I served as a chaplain at a correctional institution, otherwise known as a prison, for several years, and each week I would see the wear and tear on the men as they shuffled to the chapel. Granted, they had a...
How Patient Are You

How Patient Are You

Long road trips are something that our family loves to take. We have traveled all over the western United States by car. Most trips have taken fifteen hours one way, but some have taken more. People asked us how our children did, and they were fine. We stopped enough...
They Didn’t Know

They Didn’t Know

When the disciples came down from the Mount of Transfiguration, they didn’t know that Jesus fulfilled all of the prophecies they grew up learning. They didn’t realize that John the Baptist was the fulfillment of Elijah’s coming. It was like putting...