Heritage Sermons

Hebrews 10:1-18 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter Perfection. We're conflicted about this at times. No one likes a perfectionist, unless they're your surgeon. No one likes someone who thinks they are perfect unless it's an athlete who really did land a 10/10 on a difficult jump. On the one hand, we want other people to be perfect for us—from spouses to servers. On the other hand, try as we m...

Hebrews 9:15-28 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter The future gives us trouble. It's not even here yet, but the future causes us to fear and fret. Some of this is with good reason. As Hebrews says, "it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment" (9:27). But for the Christian, this is not our future and so we can face the future with bold assurance and eager anticipation,...

Hebrews 9:1-14 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter What is keeping you from closeness to God? Whatever that may be it is the same thing that may lead you to drift from him and ultimately turn against him. You might be thinking of particular sins in the past or a current struggle. Or perhaps even the fact that we are here on earth in the midst of so much evil all around. Those are no small matt...

Hebrews 8:1-13 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter We're now eight chapters into the book of Hebrews and we would have reason to feel a bit lost or tired. It's at this very time that a preacher would typically know to boil it all down, to make his point simply and clearly. That's precisely what the author of Hebrews does for us in Hebrews 8:1–13. He even begins, "Now the point in what we are s...

Hebrews 7:11-28 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter With each new year comes a change in our calendars and typically a handful of changes we'd like to make to our lives. Changes in the Old Testament law covenant and the problems associated with bodily descent of priests aren't typically first on our mind. Nevertheless, they have something important to do with our deepest need for change and ho...

Hebrews 7:1-10 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter For this Christmas Day sermon we meet a mysterious man on the pages of the Old Testament named, Melchizedek. In a book filled with genealogies, he has none. He appears and is gone. Yet there are hints that he is greater even than Abraham, arguably the greatest figure in the Old Testament. Who is this man and what does he have to do with Christ...

Hebrews 6:13-20 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter In this sermon we come to the text that is the namesake for our series, where Jesus is described for us as "an anchor for the soul." This is needed encouragement after a few sermons in which we considered the stakes involved in holding fast. Our focus has been our hold on Christ. In this sermon the author of Hebrews turns our attention to the...

Hebrews 16:4-12 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter In this sermon we come to one of the most difficult passages in the book of Hebrews and perhaps the New Testament. Hebrews 6:4–12 is difficult to understand. Is it really true that those who fall away can never repent? Is this impossible, as this passage seems to say? Is it really possible to be a genuine Christian but later "lose our salvati...

Hebrews 5:11-6:3 | An Anchor for the Soul | Matt Jackson Growth. An expectation that is built into the fabric of our human existence. The assumption that something that is healthy and alive will keep growing and maturing. And, just as people are expected to exhibit certain physical characteristics in keeping with their natural age, there is a compelling Scriptural expectation for believers to grow...

Hebrews 5:1-10 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter If you've read through the book of Hebrews and come to that name Melchizedek, then you'll know this subject was coming. In the chapters ahead, the author makes an extended argument for why you should hold fast to Christ from this peculiar and scarcely mentioned Old Testament character. This sermon’s text introduces that coming argument. We nee...

Hebrews 4:14-16 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter This text is the Book of Hebrews in miniature. Like a good preacher, the author of this sermonic letter will expound Scripture and exhort us at length, making and developing arguments. But he also knows how to put the matter simply. We need both.

Hebrews 4:1-13 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter What can we learn from dead bodies strewn about the desert? Israel's failure to enter the land in Moses' day is a warning to us. Apart from faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, our savior greater than Moses and Joshua, there is no entrance for us into God's presence. But there's more here than a picture of fearful judgment. The land of the Old Test...

Hebrews 3:7-19 | An Anchor for the Soul | Timothy Martin Lonely hearts are treacherous things. All hearts since the Fall are treacherous things. They create idols, they foment rebellion, they harden, and they drink up the lies of sin. An entire generation of those which witnessed the miracles of the Exodus failed to receive the blessings of God in this life because their hearts were full of unbeli...

Hebrews 3:1-6 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter Faithfulness is a great commendation. It's one word Scripture uses to describe the life of Moses, the figure that towers over the whole story of the Old Testament. Jesus, the author of Hebrews says, is faithful like Moses was. But Jesus is greater still, like a builder is greater than a building. All of this has something to contribute to our o...

Hebrews 2:17, 18 | An Anchor for the Soul: A Study in the Book of Hebrews | Trent Hunter This is the capstone sermon on a series of four sermons on the incarnation. We have considered the incarnation from several vantage points—what Christ has done for us, what he did for the devil, etc. This week we consider the incarnation from the vantage point of heaven.

Hebrews 2:17-18 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter This sermon is the capstone in a series of four sermons on the incarnation. We have considered the incarnation from several vantage points—what Christ has done for us, what he did for the devil, etc. This week we consider the incarnation from the vantagepoint of heaven..

Hebrews 2:14-16 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter Death is a mortal enemy. It's been around a long time and we haven't been able to shake it. We toggle between distraction and despair. Eventually, we face it head on. Death is indeed our problem and there is nothing we can do about it. The author of Hebrews addresses the reality and fear of death directly with an answer that deals with death...

Hebrews 2:10-13 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter Some of us know what it's like to have a brother. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad. It depends on the brother. In the case of our Lord Jesus, he is the very best brother we could have. He is like us in just the right ways and yet not like us in every way, for he can save us, set us apart for God, and make us sons of his Father in he...

Hebrews 1-13 | An Anchor for the Soul | Abe Stratton The book of Hebrews was read out loud before it was ever read in a Bible with binding. But this book was not only written to be read out loud, it is itself a written sermon. In this sermon we will get a sense for how this book may have sounded on the ears of the first hearers. More importantly, we hear the book in one sitting as God's Word for u...

Hebrews 2:5-9 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter In our series to this point we have set our attention on our exalted Lord, Christ the radiance of God's glory, enthroned at God's right hand. Christ is high above the angels. In this week's sermon we begin to consider all that it means that Christ became lower than the angels. Listen and meditate on the incarnation of the eternal Son for us.

Hebrews 2:1-4 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter If we had to boil the whole of the Christian life down to one central responsibility, what would it be? One responsibility that would make all of the other responsibilities both doable and desirable? One responsibility that if neglected would mean our eternal damnation. In this we come to our first of several warning passages in the book of Heb...

Hebrews 1:5-14 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter Angels are all the rage. The Bible is the world's best selling book, but books about angels may well be more widely read. With this sermon we come to one of the Bible's most important passages about angels. The message is not what you might think. Rather, the point of the passage in this is the point of angels: to prepare for and announce that...

Hebrews 1:1-4 | An Anchor for the Soul | Trent Hunter The purpose of an introduction of any work of literature is to gather our attention. That can be done in any number of ways. In the case of the letter to the Hebrews, the author begins by saying everything at once. One shimmery, beautiful, complex, orderly sentence to hold out for us the majesty of Jesus Christ. Listen in and prepare to be intr...

Revelation 19:6-10 | Mile Markers for the Mission | Jonathan Farmer Eating with Jesus—our Bridegroom. With others—from every tribe and type. Reborn. Restored. Remade. Reunited. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb provides a sweet anticipation of the culmination of our salvation, but also a powerful motivation for how we engage others now. Listen in and hear from our missionary, Jonathan Farmer.

Acts 14:19-28 | Mile Markers for the Mission | Trent Hunter The work of global missions requires our most careful thinking and prayerful sacrifice. We do right from time to time to focus on some of the basic questions related to our global mission: What are we tasked to do by our Lord? How do we know when we've been faithful? Who should we partner with in this work? In this sermon we come to our s...