John Mark Hicks

The Order (or Manner) of Melchizedek This “King Melchizedek of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him”; and to him Abraham apportioned “one-tenth of everything.” His name, in the first place, means “king of righteousness”; next he is also king of Salem, […]

We Are Confident of Better Things in Your Case For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, […]

“Dios vio todo lo que había hecho y era muy bueno” (Génesis 1:31a). “…Maldita serás entre todos los animales…Maldita la tierra…” (Génesis 3:14a, 17b). Dios creó el orden, la vida y la luz de una tierra caótica, inanimada y oscura. Por acto divino, la vida surgió de la nada, la luz apareció en la oscuridad […]

A Literary Digression: Faith Seeking Understanding About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become dull in understanding. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid […]

Priests Are Human Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been […]

Headed to the Promised Land with Israel Hebrews 4:1-13 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For indeed the good news came to us just as to them; but the message they heard did not […]

Therefore, make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown, and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is nothing better than peace, by which all warfare among those in heaven and those […]

In the Wilderness with Israel Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,             “Today, if you hear his voice,             do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,                         as on the day of testing in the wilderness,             where your ancestors put me to the test,                         though they had seen my works for […]

Wes McAdams leads the ministry at Radically Christian. He interviewed John Mark Hicks about hermeneutics, reading the Bible, and the prospects of unity within the Restoration Movement. You can find the interview here.

Moses and Jesus Compared Moses prophesied that one like him would come after him (Deuteronomy 18:15), and the preacher identifies Jesus, the Messiah, as that one. To be sure, Moses was a faithful servant among God’s people in the wilderness, but Jesus is the faithful Son over God’s people whose glory far exceeds the glory […]