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Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 6.17-19 Tyler Willis The same omnipotent God who spoke the universe into existence, purposefully created you! Romans 8:28 reminds us that for those who love Him, all things work together for good, for those called according to His purpose. Yet, do we truly marvel at Him? Or do we often worship creation over the Creator, seeking our own sovereignty, thinking o...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 6.13-20 Jobey McGinty The author of Hebrews uses the story of the covenant God made with Abraham to illustrate the fact that God, when He made a promise to us, likewise did so by making the promise sure by Him making the promise to Himself rather than between us. He swore by two unchangeable things: He swore by Himself (His unchangeable character and purpose)...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 6.9-12 Jobey McGinty Despite the stark warning the author of Hebrews has already given, it is clear that his ultimate goal is for the reader to have confidence and assurance of their salvation. And he points out that he does have confidence in their salvation for one primary reason: they have proved it. Their works of love and service are clear evidence of th...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 6.4-8 Jobey McGinty Is the author of Hebrews telling us that it is possible for a believer to get to a point where they can no longer repent? This is, indeed, a challenging passage, and so we must use the whole Word of God to help in our understanding. When things are unclear in any communication or desire for understanding, we ought to appeal to the most cle...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 5.11-6.3 Jobey McGinty The basic principles of Christianity are not unimportant or something we should move on from, but they are the foundations that we most build upon and go on from to maturity. The biggest threat to the church today is not from outside the church, but from inside. “Biblical illiteracy” is an epidemic in the church despite the fact that th...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 5.1-10 Jobey Mcginty The author of Hebrews provides us a description of the High Priest, as it had been described in God's Word. And, eventually, a new High Priest was sent, and it was the very Son of God Almighty. But although He was the Son, He would not be given preferential treatment. He would have to go through all that the earthly High Priests would go...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 4.14-16 Jobey McGinty Paying attention to the “small words” in the bible is of critical importance for us. Whether it is “and” or “but” or “if,” all of these make a huge difference in understanding what the Lord is telling us. And in Hebrews, we see a lot of these, and in particular we see a lot of two important phrases: Because, and Therefore. Because we hav...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 4.8-13 Tyler Willis God's word is living, active, and sharper than any sword. It pierces to the heart, revealing what needs to be brought into the light and purifying us from within. Remember, we cannot change our own hearts or anyone else's; this is God's work. Our call is to earnestly desire His word and to seek our rest and fulfillment not in the fleeting...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 4.1-7 Jobey McGinty Rest seems quite elusive for us in this day and age. Constant demands and keeping up with the pace of life leaves us restless. But God offers us the best and most important rest necessary, and that is rest from not only condemnation and shame, but also rest from trying to earn God’s love and acceptance. The Good News is that rest is still...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 3.12-19 Jobey McGinty It is easy to start almost anything, but it is an entirely different thing to finish well. The author of Hebrews does not want his readers to miss out on this “so great a salvation,” and he gives a warning to them of that possibility. From these verses, there are at least two things we can recognize...first, we must heed the call to “tak...

Easter 2025 - 1 Corinthians 5.6-8 Jobey McGinty God’s Word says that “a little leaven leavens the whole lump.” It’s a picture of how our sin, even just a “little bit,” spreads to the whole lump of dough. So for us, God’s Word makes it clear, we have all fallen short, and God alone is truly good. But we aren’t left with that bad news. Because of His love, God devised a plan. He came to the earth, a...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 3.1-6 Jobey McGinty The author of Hebrews calls us “holy brothers.” Though we were enemies and children of wrath, God enacted a fitting way to redeem us to be His children...and if we are in His son, Jesus, then we are holy. Whether we always feel or act holy is another matter! But the author of Hebrews is seeing us through the lens of the completed work of C...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 2.10-18 Jobey McGinty It may not be possible for us to fully understand the depths of our sin, but even a surface level comprehension should bring us to our knees. God, of course, sees our sin for what it is and knows that it requires a rescue plan that is beyond our comprehension or capability. And God’s Word says that it was “fitting” that God would come up...

Refresh Sunday - Lamentations 3.22, 23 Jobey McGinty It is so easy, natural even, for us to drift from what is good. We pursue the good things of God, we get off to a good start, and then we wander. But thankfully, God gives us new grace and mercy each day, so we never have to think we have built up some insurmountable deficit that gets us “behind.”

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 2.5-9 Jobey McGinty The author of Hebrews begins with showing Christ’s solidarity with God, but now in these verses he is shifting to show Christ’s solidarity with man. At creation, man was given dominion over creation, but we failed. Christ takes up that cause in order to reestablish that kingdom reign, and also pay for the penalty of the loss due to humanki...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 2.1-4 Tyler Willis How easily we can all drift spiritually without noticing! The serious consequences of neglecting such a great salvation are real, just as judgment under the law was. So how do we fight this drift? God's Word! Read it, meditate on it, discuss it with your gospel community, live it out! As we soak in God's Word we can't help but become closer...

John 17.20-23 Pastor Mwindula Mbewe of Hillview Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia blessed us with a powerful message about God's call for His church to be "one." This unity stems from sharing in Christ's glory, and while we want this unity in the church...we also very much want glory for ourselves. Our sinful desires look for ways to create distinctions and division, the very opposite of the type o...

Hebrews: True and Better - Hebrews 1.1-14 Jobey McGinty The author of Hebrews begins with big claims about Christ, and he moves quickly into referring to various Old Testament Scriptures to show how Christ is the fulfillment of those Scriptures. His goal is to help these Jewish believers rightly interpret the Old Testament in light of the events of Christ. What the author is doing here is effectiv...

Hebrews: The True and Better - Hebrews 1.1-4 Jobey McGinty The whole purpose of the book of Hebrews is to reveal the glory of God through the person and work of Jesus Christ, our great High Priest. As we behold the glory of the radiance of the Son, we, too, will be transformed from one degree of glory to the next, until the day that we are with Him forever and ever. We begin this new sermon series...

Every Day with Jesus - Acts 2.42-47, Ephesians 4.11-16, Matthew 28.18-20 Jobey McGinty God’s design for the local church is to gather His people regularly for daily life in Christ, to be built up, healed, equipped, and matured so that we can go out and spread the aroma of Christ and make disciples of all nations. Until that desired end and goal, we have the challenges of sin, failures, pride, pain...

Every Day with Jesus - Matthew 6.5-13 Jobey McGinty While any prayer truly from the heart is a good prayer, accepted and loved by God, there are also “wrong” and “better” ways to pray. Jesus gives us “do’s” and “don’ts” when it comes to praying. The Psalms also serve as a kind of prayer handbook. When we pray the Psalms, we pray from our own hearts to be sure, but we are also joining with our spir...

Every Day with Jesus - Ephesians 3.14-21 Jobey McGinty No “one way” relationship can survive, much less thrive. With Christ, if we are only “breathing in” our own thoughts, worries, or desires, we will always be one-sided, because we will only then be “breathing out” our thoughts, fears, and worries. A two-way relationship with Christ requires prayer, and while any genuine prayer is good, when we...

Every Day with Jesus - John 3.1-7 Tyler Willis Just as physical exercise strengthens our bodies, spending time in the Word strengthens our souls and helps us grow in our faith. The more we make a habit of being in the Word, joyfully anticipating the ways that God will work in our hearts through His Word, we will see the Holy open our eyes and transform us from the inside out. And we know that the...

Every Day with Jesus - Proverbs 1.20-23 Jobey McGinty We live in an incredibly noisy world. Noisier than any other time in human history, and that is by design...some of our Enemy's greatest weapons are distraction and busyness. As Corrrie ten Boom put it, "If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy." So how do we counter these weapons? The answer is to start simple and small...to just s...

Every Day with Jesus - Romans 12:1-2 Jobey McGinty Paul lets us know that if we are not being transformed by the renewal of our mind, we will be conformed to the world. In our society, this is more challenging than ever, with mobile technology purpose-built for distraction and consuming our attention. It's easy to feel like we just don't have time, but in reality, we have plenty of time...we just...