How do you deal with the old and strange and culturally foreign stuff in the Bible?

In a sermon on Hebrews 8, (part of our Bible reading plan today), John Piper gives wisdom when we come to something in the Bible that is “old and strange and foreign” to us. It’s almost inevitable that people who live in the modern world of computers and jets and television and antibiotics will read … More How do you deal with the old and strange and culturally foreign stuff in the Bible?

Saved to the uttermost!

Hebrews 7:25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. (Read Hebrews 7:11-28 in our reading plan) John Piper, in a sermon on Hebrews 7, “Jesus: From Melchizedek to Eternal Savior” Verses 1-24 may be complex and difficult … More Saved to the uttermost!

You are not left to yourself to hold on the storms of life.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,  where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 6:13-20 is in our read-through-the-Bible plan today.) Here are thoughts … More You are not left to yourself to hold on the storms of life.

How to Drink Milk

John Piper, gives us thoughts to consider in a sermon on Hebrews 5, in our read-through-the-Bible plan today What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God’s revelation, you don’t do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink … More How to Drink Milk