Servants and Witnesses

Acts 26:16-18 states: “But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as...
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The Superior High Priest (Hebrews 7-8)

The Levitical priesthood and the law were necessary parts of the Old Covenant. Someone greater than the Levite priests was needed because of the insufficiency of the law to make people perfect.
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The Superb Promise (Hebrews 6)

Things like repentance, belief, cleanliness, resurrection, and eternal judgement — these are all basic, foundational aspects of Christianity. They are not signs of mature believers. There are deeper teachings to understand beyond them. The Pauline Author’s believing Hebrew...
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The Superior Savior (Hebrews 2-3)

Christians have received the greatest salvation, better than the law of the Old Testament. We should take Christ’s teachings seriously or else we will wander from them and miss out on a great blessing. We need to be fully delivered from the negative consequences of the Fall, by...
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The Superior Son (Hebrews 1)

The law and the prophets came to their peak in Christ. Christ is God’s Son and the heir of all things.
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A Mountain-top Experience (Matthew 17:1-23)

Jesus fulfills the prophesy He told His disciples about a week earlier when He said that some of them would not see death until they saw the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. Jesus takes three of His disciples: Peter, James, and John up on a high mountain and is terrifyingly...
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What does the heavenly kingdom look like? (Matthew 13)

Jesus teaches a parable about a sower who scatters his seed on four different types of ground. The first three types of ground fail to produce a crop, but the fourth type of ground is good soil, and it produces a very good harvest.
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Under the Good Yoke (Matthew 11:25-30)

Jesus offers His easy and light yoke to everyone who is tired from trying to bear the heavy burdens of the religious establishment.
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The Road of the Teacher (Matthew 10)

Jesus empowers His group of twelve disciples to perform miracles before He sends them throughout the land. Matthew lists the twelve apostles by name.
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Pentecost

Pentecost is a long-standing Jewish harvest party, a Christian celebration as old as Jesus’ Church. And the Pentecost moment described in the New Testament is a 1st-century event in Jerusalem where people’s heads caught fire (sort of). At this event, an indoor windstorm swirled...
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