...In order to prove what he has just asserted — namely, that the Son is superior to the angels — the writer of Hebrews asks a demanding series of rhetorical questions.

...Our eyes should rest, not on world conditions, but on Jesus Christ. Only He can eradicate disease and heal society’s ills. As we wait for His return, how do we cope in the world-that-now-is?

...Union with Christ is a major New Testament refrain. Paul uses phrases like “in Christ” or “in the Lord” about 150 times. We cannot unite ourselves to Christ; it comes as a gift through the gospel.

...I think it’s safe to say that a lot of what is called evangelism is not actually evangelism. To quote our dear friend Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

...God changed Abram’s name by putting two extra letters before the “m.” Abram became Abraham. “Exalted Father” became “Father of Multitudes.” A century-old childless man. Is that a joke?

...Those apart from Christ cannot understand the things of God...But not you. If you’re in Christ, you can see things that they can’t. You can understand things that they can’t.

...In Ephesians 5 and Colossians 3, we have the Holy Spirit’s instructions for congregational singing. The pronouns are plural. This is a description of congregational singing as God intends it.

Christ’s sufferings, temptations, trials, and other sorrows during his life of humiliation enable him now to be a “merciful and faithful high priest” toward his brothers. He is now in heaven what he was on earth.

We must be on guard against other gospels in our day. What are they? We will narrow them to six.

A personal look at God’s grace and mercy, and how it calmed a sinner’s nerves for a lifetime.

Ask people what they want out of life, and they’ll answer, “to be happy.” The same is true for the most superficial materialist and the most devout saint: all of us are wired to seek happiness.

The only thing certain in life is death. No one can escape death indefinitely. No one gets out of life alive.

God’s Spirit records Israel’s history in the wilderness to teach us about this too-easily-committed and too-easily-overlooked sin of grumbling.