Sermon Outline - November 05, 2007
INTRODUCTION God is love, John says, and that love is manifested in history through the Father's love for the Son, a love expressed in the gift of the Spirit. That eternal familial love of Father and Son in the Spirit...
Root of bitterness - August 09, 2007
Watch that no root of bitterness grow up, Hebrews 12:15 warns. What's a root of bitterness? Sounds like someone who's bitter in the church. But Deuteronomy 29:18 uses a similar phrase to describe those who turn aside from Yahweh to...
Sacrifice - June 28, 2007
Christian worship is God's service to us. Yet, Christian worship is sacrificial, and sacrifice appears to be a human act reaching toward God. That's certainly how Luther understood the sacrifice of the Mass. How to resolve? Teresa Okure, Professor of...
The Spoken Son - May 07, 2007
A student points out that Hebrews 1-2:4 contains seven quotations from the Old Testament. Through these seven words, God speaks His Son as the new creation....
Structure of Hebrews - November 19, 2006
Gabriella Gelardini of the University of Basel gave an excellent presentation on the structure of Hebrews, defending this basic chiasm: A. Elevation and Abasement of the Son, 1:1-2:18 (terminology: son, angels, abase) B. Faithlessness of fathers and sons, 3:1-6:20 C....
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A House For My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament

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