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Hebrews 2:9-18 presents Jesus as the One who came to humanity’s aid. He did that through great risk to Himself, being required to put on flesh and become like every other human being. He was tempted, He suffered, and He died. And He did all those things to provide what humankind needed: salvation. Hebrews 2:16 describes what Jesus did for humankind as giving help , and a closer look at the word translated "help"   illustrates   its meaning. In various passages, this word desc

Luke 18:10-15 records the parable Jesus told about two men who went to the temple to pray. The first man was a Pharisee focused on himself, and Jesus even said he “prayed this to himself.” The prayer of the Pharisee was filled with comparisons to other people whom he believed were worse than himself. He was thankful that he was better than everyone else, and assumed God shared his estimation. The other man was a tax collector, one of those specifically named by the Pharisee a

Ezekiel was a prophet of God to the Israelite exiles in Babylon. God sent Ezekiel so that the people would know that God had not abandoned them, nor had He stopped speaking to them (Ezekiel 2:5). When God commissioned Ezekiel to his work, He gave him a scroll full of lamentations, mourning, and woe, and told him to eat it. More than that, God told Ezekiel, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you” (Ezekiel 3:3). As Ezekiel went