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The condition of Israel's affliction & redemption from Egypt

In the end, the LORD made affliction to become a servant to Israel’s flourishing. This, in fact, predicts the gospel: The curse would not prevent God’s promise.

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Power, Privilege, & Potluck Dinners

A simple meal as the unlikely demonstration of the gospel's power

In capitals all around the world, men devise many means to encourage or impose even the most tenable of unities. Against these efforts are raised the schemes of still other clever men, attempting another new unity to replace the last. The church is to stand outside the circle of these efforts, preaching a gospel that displays a different kind of power.

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Select Quotations

Committing Sacrilege in Pursuit of Worship

Geerhardus Vos on the religious inclinations of man

"And often the more ostensibly spiritual and refined these thing are, the more potent and treacherous their lure. The modern man who seeks to save and perfect himself has a whole pantheon of ideals, each of them a veritable god sapping the vitals of his religion."

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Commentary & Exposition

- Hebrews
- Hebrews 13:8-16

No Continuing City, but Continual Praise

First century anxiety & doubt answered by an eternal promise

This short section serves as among the last admonitions of this epistle. It seeks the steadiness of faith, a faith which previous parts of the epistle so clearly describe and instruct as being essential to a man’s life before his Redeemer.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Hebrews
- Hebrews 9:1-28

A Priesthood of Believers

How the tabernacle’s design informs believers about their present priesthood

For all of the anxiety that the Israelites—people and priests alike—must have felt in those moments before the high priest entered the holy place on that day, there was most certainly also a kind of relief to everyone after he reappeared from the tabernacle. After all, it was not by his mere entrance into the second tabernacle that the priest obtained peace, but by the high priest’s reappearance from there.

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