May 4, 2024
Bobby Valentine and John Mark Hicks on Psalm 1 This episode begins a new series led by Bobby Valentine and John Mark Hicks. This series is dedicated to understanding and practicing the Psalms. Each week they will discuss a particular Psalm. In this first week, they discuss Psalm 1, which introduces the whole Psalter itself. […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Derek, Law, Meditation, Psalm 1, Psalms, The Way, Torah, Wisdom |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 1, 2024
Hebrews 10:1-18 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Atonement, Body, Day of Atonement, Hebrews 10:1-18, Psalm 40, Resurrection, Sacrifice, Yom Kippur |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 1, 2024
The following videos are five lecture/sermon presentations and one Q&A from the Ray Evans Seminar held at the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, Oklahoma, on April 12-14, 2024. The presentations are based on the book Searching for the Pattern, published in 2019.
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Hermeneutics | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, Patternism, Searching for the Pattern, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 24, 2024
Hebrews 9:11-28 But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Atonement, Christ, Christology, Earthly Sanctuary, Heavenly Sanctuary, High Priest, Holies of Holies, Holy Place, Messiah, Most Holy Place, New Covenant, Tabernacle, Temple |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 17, 2024
Hebrews 9:1-10 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a tent called the Holy of Holies. In […]
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Biblical Texts, Uncategorized | Tagged: Altar of Incense, Assembly, Church, Ecclesiology, Heaven, Manna, Priesthood, Sanctuary, Tabernacle, Wilderness, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 10, 2024
Hebrews 8:1-13 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up. […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Covenant, Hebrews, Hebrews 8, Jeremiah 31:31-34, New Covenant, Old Covenant |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 3, 2024
Unlike Other High Priests Now if perfection had been attainable through the levitical priesthood—for the people received the law under this priesthood—what further need would there have been to speak of another priest arising according to the order of Melchizedek, rather than one according to the order of Aaron? For when there is a change […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Death, Hebrews, Hebrews 7:11-28, Levitical priesthood, Melchizedek, Messiah, Priesthood, priests, Resurrection |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks