John Mark Hicks

“El Espíritu del Señor está sobre mí, porque me ha ungido para dar buenas nuevas a los pobres. Me ha enviado a proclamar libertad a los cautivos y vista a los ciegos, a poner en libertad a los oprimidos, a proclamar el año de gracia del Señor” (Lucas 4:18-19). “Hoy mismo se ha cumplido la […]

“…Galilea de los gentiles: el pueblo que vivía en tinieblas vio una gran luz; a los que vivían en sombra de muerte, una luz les resplandeció” (Mateo 4:15d-16). “…Jesús comenzó a predicar: “Arrepiéntanse, porque el reino de los cielos está cerca” (Mateo 4:17). ¿“Galilea de los gentiles”? ¿No es eso parte de la tierra prometida? […]

“Toda la tierra de Canaán, en la que ahora eres extranjero, te la daré a ti y a tu descendencia después de ti en posesión perpetua; y yo seré su Dios” (Génesis 17:7-8). “[Yahweh] nos trajo a este lugar y nos dio esta tierra, tierra que mana leche y miel” (Deuteronomio 26:9). Cuando la tierra […]

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 […]