When life gets hard, it is easy to conclude that God must not care about you. That was the conclusion that had these Hebrew readers ready to throw in the…
Reinterpreting Hard Times
Reverend Bowen: Sermons
Reverend Bowen is Signal Pres' Senior Pastor.
You’re Not the Only One
Chapter 11 amounts to a run through a great crowd of people who by their own witness cheer us on not to quit but to keep running the race of…
A Better Work in a Better Place
Where do you go with your guilty conscience? The author’s words to people wanting to take theirs to the temple and the sacrifices is an encouragement to us to take…
The Better Covenant
Chapter 8 tells us that Jesus puts us in an arrangement where we know and relate to God in ways superior to Israel experienced in the days of Moses. After…
The Better Melchizedek
In chapter 7, the author of Hebrews finally unpacks the significance of the man he has mentioned twice before in the letter: Melchizedek. This mysterious figure from Genesis 14 is…
A Painful, Purposeful Look in the Mirror
Hebrews 6 contains one of the hardest warnings in the letter, if not the Bible. Yet like all warnings, it comes from one who loves us and who longs for…
Our Bold Approach
What the author is doing in this passage is clear enough: he is showing us that Jesus perfectly fulfills the role of high priest. Since the role of the high…
The Final Word
We begin our study of Hebrews by getting a broad view of the purpose and strategy of the author before seeing how that purpose and strategy make sense of the…