By Danny R Von Kanel Once you begin to think you’re humble, you’ve lost it. Humility is a quality hard to grasp, difficult to explain, but easy to see. Many of us struggle to know exactly where to learn such a virtue. In recent years, God has taught me about humility in a variety […]
By Steve Wyatt I visited Pinetop, Arizona two years after my late wife, Cindy, and I had spent a week there. It was after her initial rounds of radiation and chemo and we had gone there to celebrate the “end” of her cancer. Two weeks later she had a seizure, and what we thought […]
By Dan Lentz 1. What was the biggest surprise you received this past week? Read Hebrews 12:18-29. 2. Verses 18-24 compare and contrast the old and the new covenants. What major differences do you see between the two? 3. The writer of Hebrews says we are receiving a kingdom that cannot […]
By Sam E. Stone The supremacy of the new covenant over the old is the theme of today’s text. Thomas Hewitt explained, “The author’s aim in this is to show that higher privileges carry with them greater responsibilities.” He makes his point by contrasting two mountains, Mount Sinai (also called Mount Horeb) and […]
By David Faust Work is a four-letter word. But then, so is lazy. Laziness is like talking too much; we abhor it in others but rationalize it in ourselves. A 2011 article in The New York Times argued that Americans “aren’t getting lazier but we’re getting softer. Most of us spend our workdays sitting […]
