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When We Listen – May 9, 2022
Listen with Me Hebrews 12:18-24 (HCSB)For you have not come to what could be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, gloom, and storm, to the blast of a trumpet, and the sound of words. (Those who heard it begged that not another word be spoken to them, for they...
When We Listen – May 5, 2022
Read with Me Hebrews 12:14-17 (HCSB)Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness—without it no one will see the Lord. Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many. And make sure...
When We Listen – May 3, 2022
Hebrews 12:4-13 (HCSB)In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: My son, do not take the Lord’s discipline lightly or faint when you are reproved by Him,...
When We Listen – May 2, 2022
Hebrews 12:1-3 (HCSB)Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and...
When We Listen – April 27, 2022
Hebrews 11:32-40 (HCSB)And what more can I say? Time is too short for me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the...
When We Listen – April 20, 2022
Hebrews 11:31 (HCSB)By faith Rahab the prostitute received the spies in peace and didn’t perish with those who disobeyed. Rahab was an interesting woman. She is described in the Hebrew text as a zonah, which can be translated as innkeeper, tavern keeper, or...
When We Listen – April 19, 2022
Hebrews 11:30 (HCSB)By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being encircled by the Israelites for seven days. The story of Jericho's cataclysmic fall is well-known by many. But few would list it as an example of outstanding faith, even though it is one of the...
When We Listen – April 18, 2022
Hebrews 11:29 (HCSB)By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned. The miraculous crossing of the Red Sea was a watershed moment for the whole nation of Israel. It was remembered in a...
When We Listen – April 13, 2022
Hebrews 11:27-28 (HCSB)By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for Moses persevered as one who sees Him who is invisible. By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not...
When We Listen – April 11, 2022
Hebrews 11:24-26 (HCSB)By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin. For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be...