This Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Under the pressure of mounting persecution, the Hebrew Christians were being tempted to return to the Old Covenant of Judaism for a sense of escape, safety, and security. Part of that temptation was to consider the Levitical priesthood to be still of value in offering them human mediators and purifiers. From these esteemed and dignifie...
Keep ReadingThis Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Our lives are filled with so many twists and turns. So much is out of our control, yet we keep trying to find ways to work our plan, to keep our timelines and goals on track, and to feel a sense of progression. When our plans are moving in accordance with our goals, we feel accomplishment. When we feel off course, we struggle and striv...
Keep ReadingThis Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Just how sure can we be about our safety and security with God? If we are not "dull of hearing" (sluggish v. 12), we can hear the author declare "we feel sure of better things" (v. 9); that we can have "full assurance of hope until the end" (v. 11); that we are those who are "imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit th...
Keep ReadingThis Sunday at Cornerstone Church... Hebrews 6 is one of several passages in the book that has given people great trouble in the area of eternal security, causing them to doubt whether they can ever have assurance that they belong to God. It describes those who would possibly "fall away" from the faith in Jesus (v. 6); it warns them of the deadly consequences of doing so ...
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