Hebrews 8 (with OT quotes in italics) 1 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent that the Lord, and not any mortal, has […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 12th July 2024
Hebrews 7:15-28 ( with OT quotes in italics) 15 It is even more obvious when another priest arises, resembling Melchizedek, 16 one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is attested of him, ‘You are a priest for ever, according to the order […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 11th July 2024
inspiration in your inbox Thursday, 11 July 2024 Hebrews 7:1-14 ( with OT quotes in italics) 1 This ‘King Melchizedek of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him’; 2 and to him Abraham apportioned ‘one-tenth of everything’. His name, in the first place, means ‘king […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 10th July 2024
Hebrews 6:9-20 (with OT quote in italics) 9 Even though we speak in this way, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that belong to salvation. 10 For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do. 11 And we […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 9th July 2024
Hebrews 5:11–6:8 11 About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food; 13 for everyone who lives on milk, being […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 8th July 2024
Hebrews 5:1-10 (with OT quotes in italics) 1 Every high priest chosen from among mortals is put in charge of things pertaining to God on their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness; 3 and because of this he must offer […]
Sunday Worship 7 July 2024
Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome As Labi Siffre’s haunting song, about the barriers he faced due to prejudice against some of his own identities, fades we think today about who we are. Many of us don’t have to think too hard about who we are as we’re perceived as being […]
Daily Devotion Saturday 6th July 2024
Hebrews 4 (with OT quotes in italics) Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For indeed the good news came to us just as to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they […]
Daily Devotion Friday 5th July 2024
Hebrews 3 (with OT quotes in italics) 1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also ‘was faithful in all God’s house.’ 3 Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 4th July 2024
Hebrews 2:5-18 (with OT quotes in italics) 5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified somewhere, ‘What are human beings that you are mindful of them, or mortals, that you care for them?7 You have made them for a little while lower than the angels; you […]