A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Daily Thoughts from Hebrews: Decision Time (12:12-17)

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also

And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson,

By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found,

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth,