Status Updates From Hebrews (Commentaries for C...

"God’s faithfulness to this people issues forth in the promise of a new covenant, which will implant God’s laws within the people, leading to a renewal of the depth and breadth of their relationship with God along with God’s merciful forgetting of their sins." (Commentary on 8:8-12)

His priestly sacrifice costs him something—namely, his human life—and in the act of offering it, not only does he secure freedom for humanity as well as win reconciliation between God and God’s people, but he also achieves the ability to be empathetic toward those people. (96)

"My commentary endeavors to bring out, chiefly, the majesty of God so that no matter what pressures are tempting a reader away, the glory of God’s goodness present in Hebrews might shine more brightly to make those things that only seem to glimmer reveal their worthlessness." (26)

"His admonitions are not aimed at a disaffected group, whose confession is being crowded out by other distractions, but to a group under fire, who are weighing whether holding fast to the confession of Christ is worth the cost." (25)