Fixing Our Eyes

Fixing Our Eyes

Living by Faith

Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we open up chapter 11 of the Book of Hebrews. Chapter 10 closed with the call to endure suffering with hope. Jesus Christ is a treasure beyond anything we might lose in this temporary life. And the author reminded us that the righteous will live by faith. But what is faith? What does it look like and what does it produce? And how…

A Faith that Perseves

Welcome to Chapel City Church! This week we return to our study in the Book of Hebrews, and we will finish working through chapter 10. The last time we were here, we went through a serious warning passage. The author makes it clear that if you turn away from Christ, there is no hope of salvation in anything else. But what is the alternative? When they were first saved,…

A Superior Sacrifice

Welcome to Chapel City Church! The author of Hebrews has spent the whole middle of the book outlining how the New Covenant is better than the Old Covenant. The New Covenant means a better priesthood. Jesus is a high priest superior to any of Aaron’s sons under the Law. The New Covenant means a better work has been done in a better tabernacle. The finished work of…

Better Promises

Welcome to Chapel City Church! What a joy to be guided by the author of Hebrews through the better work of Jesus as the mediator of a better covenant. This week, as we celebrate communion, we are invited once again to consider how precious those New Covenant promises are. The Old Covenant provided a temporary covering for sin, but it always anticipated a sacrifice that…

Contrasting Covenants

Welcome to Chapel City Church! Last week the author of Hebrews gave us a summary in the middle of the book. He pointed us backwards to where he’s been, and gave us a preview of where he’s going. And where he’s going for the next couple of chapters is a wonderfully encouraging look at the blessings of a better covenant. The Old Covenant had value. It…

The Main Point

This week we turn the page and work our way through Hebrews, Chapter 8. After 7 chapters full of encouragement, warnings, and some nuanced arguments for how Jesus is the better high priest, perhaps you feel a bit overwhelmed. Even lots of good information can feel like information overload! Wouldn’t it be helpful to have a summary of where we’ve been and where…

The Better High Priest

This week we will look at the closing verses of Hebrews Chapter 7. We have seen the picture of the priesthood of Melchizedek, and been called to understand that he served as a type that Jesus would later fulfill. Last week we looked at the better ministry of Jesus, and saw how he accomplished things that the Old Covenant priests never could. This week we close the chapter…

The Better Ministry

We are working through the Book of Hebrews, and the author is reminding us of how much better Jesus is. Better than what? Better than anything! And last week he started to open up the reasons that Jesus is a better priest than anyone who served under the law. That priesthood was based on your family line, and only lasted as long as you did. But Jesus is a better high…

The Model of a Better Ministry

Welcome to Chapel City Church! After a severe warning that covered most of chapter 5 and all of chapter 6, the author of Hebrews picks up where he left off. He was concerned that they weren’t equipped to deal with some of the weighty arguments that he needed to make to show them the greatness of Jesus as our high priest. But he trusts that they will press on toward…

The Full Assurance of Hope

This week we will finish the third warning passage in the Book of Hebrews. And after some difficult passages and serious words, our author reminds his beloved audience of the hope that he has for them. They needed the reminder even if it was hard to hear, and so do we. There are eternal consequences for falling away from Jesus Christ. But it was never the author’s…