The recipients of the letter to the Hebrews were Jewish Christians who became weary of following Christ due to pressures and persecutions of their day. Likewise, there are Christians today who have become weary of following Jesus to the point of being tempted to take another course, a course that leads in the wrong direction. […]

As the writer of Hebrews continues to admonish the Jewish Christian under persecution and encourage them to continue in the Christian faith, he relates all the advantages of the New Covenant over the Old.  Jesus Christ is better than all the prophets of old, the angels, Moses, and the comparison continues. In today’s text we […]