Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. John Piper comments, in a sermon “Jesus Christ is the Same Yesterday and Today and Forever” Why does it matter that the Jesus Christ of today be the same as the Jesus Christ of yesterday and tomorrow? Let me try to put the significance [...]
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Why does it matter that the Jesus Christ of today be the same as the Jesus Christ of yesterday and tomorrow?
Posted: September 25, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, Hebrews, SeptemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Jesus, Scripture, The same yesterday and today and forever!, unchanging, Why does it matter that the Jesus Christ of today be the same as the Jesus Christ of yesterday and tomorrow?
September 24 Hebrews 13:1-8
Posted: September 24, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Hebrews, September Bible ReadingsTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Hebrews, Scripture, September 24 Hebrews 13:1-8, September Bible Readings
September 24 Hebrews 13:1-8 (ESV) Sacrifices Pleasing to God 13:1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 4 Let marriage be [...]
An Unshakable King and an Unshakable Kingdom
Posted: September 23, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, Hebrews, SeptemberTags: An Unshakable King and an Unshakable Kingdom, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Hebrews, Scripture
John Piper, in a sermon from Hebrew 12 “A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken” Before the end of this age, God is giving to everyone who believes in his Son a kingdom that cannot be shaken and will never end. This is the message of the whole Bible. But to see it we should look [...]
September 23 Hebrews 12:14-29
Posted: September 23, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Hebrews, September Bible ReadingsTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Hebrews, Scripture, September 23 Hebrews 12:14-29
September 23 Hebrews 12:14-29 (ESV) 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 that no one is [...]
Piper: look at your life, think hard about what you are doing, and get ruthless about what stays and what goes.
Posted: September 22, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, Hebrews, SeptemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, endurance, faith, Hebrews, Piper: look at your life think hard about what you are doing and get ruthless about what stays and what goes., Running With the Witnesses, Scripture
John Piper, on Hebrews 12 One more illustration: in Hebrews 12:12-13 the writer says, “Strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.” He is talking in [...]
September 22 Hebrews 12:1-13
Posted: September 22, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Hebrews, September Bible ReadingsTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Hebrews, Scripture, September 22 Hebrews 12:1-13, September Bible Readings
September 22 Hebrews 12:1-13 (ESV) Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder [...]
Piper: all those who have lived by faith crowd the marathon route to urge you on
Posted: September 22, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, Hebrews, SeptemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Hebrews, Piper: all those who have lived by faith crowd the marathon route to urge you on, run the race, Running With the Witnesses, Scripture
Hebrews 11:39-40 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. John Piper, in a sermon “Running With the Witnesses” I take verse 39 to mean that when the believers in the [...]
September 21 Hebrews 11:32-40
Posted: September 21, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Hebrews, September Bible ReadingsTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Hebrews, Scripture, September 21 Hebrews 11:32-40, September Bible Readings
September 21 Hebrews 11:32-40 (ESV) 32 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, [...]
Piper: Having true faith in God is no guarantee of comfort and security in this life.
Posted: September 20, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, Hebrews, SeptemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, faith, God's providence, Hebrews, Piper: Having true faith in God is no guarantee of comfort and security in this life., Scripture, theology of suffering
John Piper, in a sermon on Hebrews 11:29-38, “Faith to Be Strong and Faith to Be Weak” God does not always work miracles and acts of providence for our deliverance from suffering; sometimes by faith God sustains his people through sufferings. That’s the point of verses 35b-38. Or another way to put it would be [...]
The God of peace does two things for us through our Great Shepherd.
Posted: September 25, 2011 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, Hebrews, SeptemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Hebrews, Jesus is my Shepherd, Scripture, The God of peace does two things for us through our Great Shepherd., The Good Shepherd, What does it mean for us to have a Shepherd?
John Piper, in a sermon “The God of Peace Brought from the Dead the Good Shepherd” And what will that mean for you? Our text mentions two things. Hebrews 13:20-21: “Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of [...]