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“People get ready, There’s a train a comin’. You don’t need no baggage, you just get on board. All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin’. Don’t need no ticket, you just thank the Lord.” “All you need is faith,” so Curtis Mayfield’s song from the sixties assures us. The preacher of this … Continue reading “Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Commentary by Bryan J. Whitfield”

Today’s second lesson begins the first of four weeks that are devoted to a sequential reading of the last three chapters of the Epistle to Hebrews. Only in the RCL Year B (Propers 23-28) is there a comparable dedication to Hebrew’s distinctive theological world. This “Year C” series from Hebrews provides an opportunity not only … Continue reading “Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Commentary by Erik Heen”

I have sometimes referred to Hebrews as a good slogan book. Its cultic mysteries keep it at arm’s length for many a preacher, but its rhetorical eloquence makes it eminently quotable. Hebrews 11:1 may take the prize for “faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the assurance of things not seen,” as it rolls … Continue reading “Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Commentary by Amy L.B. Peeler”

Good Friday is a dark day in the church year–the liturgical color for the day used to be black. On this day, our Lord was unfairly convicted, tortured, and put to death in a most cruel fashion on a cross. Those closest to him deserted him, with Peter dramatically denying that he even knew Jesus … Continue reading “Hebrews 10:16-25 Commentary by Dwight Peterson”

For modern-day Christians, the cross has become purely a religious symbol. It adorns the walls of our homes and our places of worship, its presence marks our altars as holy places, and we wear it as jewelry. In short, it rarely touches the ground! With its exalted status as the focal point of our faith, … Continue reading “Hebrews 10:16-25 Commentary by Sharon H. Ringe”

Admittedly, the narrative of the Gospel for this day is so compelling, with its familiar biblical personages and themes of suffering, and human intrigue that parishioners generally expect a sermon on the Gospel (especially if that has been the liturgical and parish custom).  This Epistle text, however offers rich theological possibilities to proclaim Good Friday … Continue reading “Hebrews 10:16-25 Commentary by Susan Hedahl”

Good Friday is the day the church pauses to meditate on the death of Jesus. It is a day of darkness. The pall of death is inevitably present. Yet this darkness also allows the power of God, usually hidden by human vulnerability, to be revealed. Krister Stendahl (d. 2008), long-time professor of New Testament at … Continue reading “Hebrews 10:16-25 Commentary by Erik Heen”

The book of Hebrews is often seen, not without reason, as one of the New Testament’s most difficult texts.1 Students who have mastered much of New Testament Greek run aground on its rocky stylistic shoals. Its imagery may seem illogical — how can Jesus be both sacrifice and High Priest? And many Christian preachers find … Continue reading “Hebrews 10:16-25 Commentary by Sandra Hack Polaski”

Hebrews has the most intricate Christology in the New Testament. It presents a high Christology in which Christ is the agent of creation and the exalted Son of God and High Priest installed at God’s right hand (especially see the opening of 1:1-4). Yet at the same time, Hebrews stresses how the enfleshed Christ shares … Continue reading “Hebrews 10:16-25 Commentary by Richard Carlson”

Last week’s lesson from Hebrews 9:24-28 told us that the church is not a system of atonement; this week’s lesson tells us what the church is — a new community of folks whose consciences have been cleansed by God, who are confident in God’s forgiveness and eager to encourage one another “to love and good … Continue reading “Hebrews 10:11-14, [15-18], 19-25 Commentary by Susan Eastman”