Tomball Bible Church

Believers in Christ can have full assurance of hope. Our assurance is not based upon our confidence in our own actions. In fact, misplaced confidence is often the very source which generates doubt. Doubts do creep in during various seasons of our lives, and we need guidance toward the full assurance of Christ whether we’re in that season now or down the road.  Hebrews 6:9-12

All of us in some form or fashion have forgotten foundational truths before that are relevant to whatever it is that we do. Athletes, performers, and business people have all had those moments of forgetting something. But forgetting something and regressing in something are two different things. For the Hebrew people, the charge of Hebrews 5:11-14 isn’t because they forgot it's because they r...

July 31, 2022 All genuine believers in Christ are called to loving obedience to God. Those who do this in humility and honesty can have the assurance they will mature in their faith by God’s grace and direction. However, prolonged, rebellious, and unrepentant sin will most certainly hinder spiritual growth and result in spiritual regression. Hebrews 6:1-8 contains a severe warning that God Himself...

Jesus is supremely better than everything else. Key leadership roles we find in Scripture for God’s people were the roles of prophet, priest, and king. Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of all three. Our passage this week shows how Christ is our supremely better high priest. The question for us is, “will we follow His example?” Hebrews 5:1-10

July 10, 2022 Jesus is supremely better than any other source of help. There are many options available to help deal with brokenness and pain in our world, but only Jesus is able to provide help in this life and in the life to come. Why is this true? Our passage provides the answer and a call to hold fast to Him who we confess as our God and Savior. Hebrews 4:14-16

July 3, 2022 The writer of Hebrews continues to reiterate and refine his point from Psalm 95, linking the idea of “rest” with obedience in the Christian life. But here, he issues another warning: that those who disobey will not enter God’s rest, and that the standard and judge of our actions is the living and active  Word of God. Hebrews 4:1-13

June 26, 2022  The Writer continues his admonition to the Jewish believers to not follow in the footsteps of the Israelites who, on the verge of entering the Promised Land, doubted God’s promises, rebelled and disobeyed God, and were prevented from entering the Promised Land and receiving God’s blessing of “rest”.  He tells them the key to avoiding this behavior: exhort one another daily. He encou...

To rightly understand Hebrews, we must deepen our familiarity with events of God’s people in the Old Testament. Hebrews 3:7-11 is a quotation from Psalm 95 which is a poetic account of Numbers 13-14. The rebellion of God’s people in the wilderness and God’s judgment against them provide the backdrop for what follows in the message of Hebrews.

June 12, 2022 The theme of Hebrews is, “Jesus is supremely better than everything else.” He is better than the prophets and the angels, and in Hebrews 3:1-6, we find He is supremely better than Moses. For the original audience of this letter, Moses was deeply revered and seen as the representative of the Law. But Jesus has ushered in something far greater than the limitations of the Law. His kingd...

God became man! The incarnation of Christ was always God’s plan to bring redemption to all who believe in Him. Hebrews 2:10-18 holds precious truths that accompany our great salvation. He includes us in His glory, sanctifies us, identifies with our suffering, and helps us face temptation. We have a glorious Savior who has redeemed us and secured our place with our Heavenly Father.  Hebrews 2:10-18

Hebrews opens with an incredible declaration that the Son of God is fully God and upholds all things by the word of His power. Yet, it was God the Father’s will to have His Son step down in humility and taste death for humanity. Jesus, fully God, became fully man to pay for our sins through His death. He was then restored fully to His rightful position as King and to whom all of creation is in sub...

We have a God who invites us to draw near to Him every day. Yet, we face an everyday choice to listen to His invitation and seek Him or to neglect His voice and tune our hearts to our own voice or voices in this world. Neglecting faith causes spiritual drift. Spiritual drift results in God's discipline and outcomes all who are in Christ should want to avoid! Fortunately, there is a daily deci...

The writer of Hebrews continues to discuss the superiority of Jesus by making his case that Jesus is superior to angels, God’s servants and supernatural messengers. Angels were a distraction to the Jewish Christians' devotion and worship of Jesus in AD 65.  Unbelievers in AD 65 needed to be convinced Jesus was more than an angel, more than just a spiritual messenger. The writer of Hebrews mak...

The passage, Hebrews 1:1-4, provides beautiful clarity of the identity and work of Jesus. The Spirit reveals seven truths about our great God and Savior Jesus Christ which also contain five distinct doctrines which are found in Him also (revelation, creation, Christ’s identity, salvation, and His eternal reign). We will explore these seven truths which will all point us to one primary response…wor...

The living God has spoken! He has used general revelation (our created world) and special revelation (His inspired Word) to reveal who He is and to speak to us. By His grace, He has made Himself known especially through the words and works of His Son, Jesus Christ. God is speaking. Do we have ears to hear His voice? Hebrews 1:1-2

Starting with Palm Sunday, we have seen Scripture's answers to the question about Jesus, "Who is this?" We have seen the truth that Jesus is the Divine, Righteous, and Good King, Jesus is the Lamb of God, and today, we will see that Jesus is the Risen Son of God. He alone is worthy of our worship, and we are commissioned to make Him known.

Guest preacher, missionary, and professor from Asian Christian Academy, Dr. Joy George exhorts from Ephesians 6:10-20.

Good Friday - Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Palm Sunday is tied to the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. This entry is a proclamation of Jesus being the divine, righteous, good King that the people need and that we need. When we think about our daily lives, what I would call an “ordinary Monday,” do we take time to stop and remember that Jesus is King? Oftentimes through the course of an ordinary Monday we don’t think about Jesus bei...

The message of Jonah is that God loves His enemies. He has a heart to save the lost. Jonah, unfortunately, mirrors the worst part of ourselves that we can resent just how good and kind He can be toward people we despise. Jonah had a big problem that the compassion of God overcomes. Will we allow His compassion to overcome the anger which can lie within us? Jonah 4

Jonah chapters 2-3 provide a contrast of two types of repentance. In chapter 2 Jonah lives out self-righteous repentance, with flowery words, biblical knowledge, all the forms expected… but none of the heart. Jonah is only pushed to repentance through extreme circumstances has no real recognition of his own heart issue and continues to feed his ego and make only the most surface-level changes of b...

Jonah resisted the truth that God’s will was better than his own. This four-chapter book in the Old Testament holds a mirror up for us to what lies in the human heart which resists trusting God’s will and plan. Jonah is typically regarded as a children’s story about Jonah and a great fish. But, this historically true story contains an important message for God’s servant and people that has nothing...

It is important to know when a church is healthy. How we treat one another inside the church and how we engage with the world around us are the key health indicators. This week our focus is on how we engage with the world. What should we be striving for as a church, along with other like-minded churches, that would be a tell-tale sign that our church family is healthy? Titus 3 will help us answer...

Paul gives the reason behind his instruction to Titus and reveals an earth-shattering truth about God’s grace to us—that God’s saving grace in Christ doesn’t just bring salvation, it also what teaches us to to live more Godly lives while we wait for his glorious return. Titus 2:11-15

After instructing Titus on the work of raising up new elders and the warning of false teachers, Paul calls him to equip the church to learn, live, and lead godly doctrine which will point people to Jesus. This passage shares a direct connection with Paul’s reason for writing in Titus 1:1 (for the knowledge of the faith which accords with godliness). Titus 2:1-10