Blood and sacrifice are so removed from our normal experience. But when a conscience needs cleansing, a blood sacrifice is the only thing that will suffice.
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Advertisers love to use words like “better,” or “new and improved,” to entice people into purchasing their products. The problem is that the promise doesn’t always pan out.
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In the Bible, humility is something associated with glory and exaltation. In fact, humility leads to victory. Nothing demonstrates more clearly than the first Palm Sunday, 2000 years ago.
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At the cross, in the cutting of the New Covenant in Jesus’ very blood, God’s love and law are reconciled and we belong to him.
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The Ten Commandments elicit varied responses, but each viewpoint boils down to either slavery or freedom. Which lens will you use?
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Do the names, Invocavit, Reminiscere, Oculi, Laetare, and Judica, mean anything to you? For most of you, I’m guessing they don’t.
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Did you happen to see the story in the news a while back about the completion of the Tzitz? “The what?” you may be asking.
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Which commandment is the hardest one to keep? Maybe kids think it’s the fourth commandment, honoring their father and mother.
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Jesus is our Praying High Priest! In this short section of Hebrews 5, he teaches us three comforts we have because of his prayers as our high priest.
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A prisoner on death row is facing his last appeal. He sits in the courtroom just waiting. Suddenly, the door at the rear of the court flies open and in walks the sharpest dressed man he’s ever seen.
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