Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the Audio: Hebrews 10, January 23, 2005There is a major shift in this chapter dividing the book of Hebrews between doctrine and application. The shift begins with five “Let Us” commands, the first being "Let us draw near to God." This is perhaps the main theme of the book of Hebrews, the idea that we have access to God. It is a blood bought priviledge. We are told that we should draw near with a sincere heart, full assurance, and a guilty conscience cleansed by the word of God. A guilty conscience is debilitating. It will separate friends, steal you happiness,
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Posted by David Carroll
Listen to the Audio: Hebrews 9, January 9, 2005The typical Christian worship service is very non threatening. A popular term among evangelical Christianity today is "Seeker oriented" worship services. You sure could not apply that term to how the Israelites worshiped. They sacrificed animals, lots of them. They say the blood would run like a river a times. We would be repulsed today at such a bloody religion. Yet, this was not their idea. They practiced their religion according to an exact set of specifications given to Moses. This was God's idea, and He was very serious about it. So
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Posted by David Carroll
Watch and listen to the video: Star of Bethlehem, January 2, 2005There was an ice storm here in Memphis before Christmas so our church canceled all services on December 26, 2004. I had planned to take a break that Sunday with a fun, multi-media talk on the Star of Bethlehem. So we did that on January 2, 2005 instead. The multi-media part was an experiment in how to record and deliver video via the Internet. The challenge was to keep the file size down without sacrificing too much quality. So, this week I am featuring a 42.4 MB download.If you are interested in
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