The carnal man's mission statement appears in Genesis 11:4: "let us make a name for ourselves, let us build ourselves a tower, defining our own destiny, imposing our will on everyone, including our own Creator." Mankind is solemnly …
One of the great blessings that God gives us every year is the command to keep His holy days. As with all of His laws, they do much more for us than they do for Him. As a loving Father, He provides for our every need, and the holy days …
In Part One, we saw that it is necessary to concentrate on what we are doing. If we let our minds wander or allow something to distract us, bad things are likely to happen. If this happens often enough in our spiritual life, we will find …

(1) Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. (2) For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, (3) how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, (4) God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
These Hebrew Christians were neglecting what they were given. William Barclay's translation of the first clause of verse 1 reads, "We must, therefore, with very special intensity [the opposite of "apathy"] pay attention to what we …
It should come as no surprise that the Day of Atonement is the most unusual holy day of the year. Each holy day has its distinctive traits. For example, the Feast of Unleavened Bread has us eating unleavened bread for a week, and Pentecost has the unusual aspect of counting. But for outsiders, Atonement is just plain weird. They think it very strange that we will voluntarily not eat or drink for an entire day. Of course, in this distinction - called "fasting" or "afflicting our souls" - resides a great deal of the day's spiritual instruction. Fasting teaches us to realize just how …
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