Hebrews for You: Giving You an Anchor for the Soul (God’s Word for You | GWFY)
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Overview
We are all tempted to drift away from Jesus, but in the book of Hebrews God gives us an anchor: a detailed understanding of how and why Jesus is better than anything else.
Seminary professor Michael J. Kruger unpacks this rich book verse by verse. He explains the Old Testament background, gives plenty of application for our lives today, and shows us how Jesus is the fulfilment of all God’s work on earth. He encourages us to live by faith in Jesus—the only anchor for our souls.
This expository guide can be read as a book; used as a devotional; and utilized in teaching and preaching.
- Accessibly written with insightful biblical analysis
- Includes verse-by-verse expository discussions
- Useful for personal devotions, leading small group studies, or sermon preparation
Top Highlights
“Things hoped for’ are things in the future that have not yet happened. ‘Things not seen’ are things in the past—events that we were not there to see. Or, put simply, our faith is in what God has done and in what God will do.” (Pages 164–165)
“Propitiation’ is a specific word which means that Jesus’ death satisfies God’s wrath against sin—it appeases God” (Page 38)
“I’m not suggesting we should go out and risk our lives recklessly, but we do need to think about how much the fear of death holds us. We spend so much time thinking about how long we are going to live and planning for the time we have left. But in Christ we live eternally. We need to get the fear of death off our shoulders and live like we are going to live forever.” (Page 38)
“Jesus is the full, final revelation of God and that God’s new way of speaking is better than the old. But what he is not saying is that the old way is irrelevant or wrong. It is the inspired, infallible word of God. It is just incomplete—like a play without a final act.” (Page 12)
“If you have trouble submitting to church leaders, you are going to have a lot of trouble submitting to the Leader. You cannot say, I’ll submit to God, but I’m not going to submit to those he has appointed over me. Submitting to one is like submitting to the other.” (Page 225)
- Title: Hebrews for You
- Author: Michael J. Kruger
- Series: God’s Word for You
- Publisher: The Good Book Company
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 238
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. N.T. Hebrews › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9781784986056, 1784986054
- Resource ID: LLS:HEBREWSFORYOU
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-23T23:04:35Z
Dr. Michael Kruger serves as the President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Charlotte campus of Reformed Theological Seminary. He earned his Ph.D. under one of the world’s leading text-critical scholars, Larry W. Hurtado, at the University of Edinburgh, where he researched a parchment fragment of an apocryphal gospel, P.Oxy. 840. He graduated summa cum laude with a M.Div. from Westminster Seminary California, and received his B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests center upon Christian Origins, particularly the development of the New Testament canon within the context of the early church.
Prior to joining the RTS faculty, Dr. Kruger served in the pastorate for several years at Church of the Redeemer in Phoenix, AZ. There he developed a passion for preaching and ministry which he passes on to his students in the classroom. Dr. Kruger has been a member of ETS for 18 years serving on the editorial board of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, as well as vice-president in 2017 and president in 2019. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the ETS study group, “NT Canon, Textual Criticism and Apocryphal Literature.” In addition to his faculty duties, he currently serves part-time as the Pastor of Discipleship Training at Uptown Christ Covenant Church in downtown Charlotte.
He is the author of thirteen books, including Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church (Zondervan, 2022, Book of the Year” award from The Gospel Coalition, ministry category). His book Surviving Religion 101: Letters to a Christian Student on Keeping the Faith in College (Crossway, 2021, “Book of the Year”, Southwestern Baptist Journal of Theology, Worldview/Apologetics category), and Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church (SPCK, 2017; IVP Academic, 2018, “Book of the Year”, The Gospel Coalition, history and biography category).
Dr. Kruger regularly speaks, lectures, and teaches throughout the United States and the world—including conferences such as The Gospel Coalition and the Ligonier Conference. In addition to his academic publications, his popular-level articles have appeared in places like Modern Reformation, Tabletalk Magazine, The Gospel Coalition, and the Wall Street Journal. He also blogs regularly on his own website, Canon Fodder.
Dr. Kruger and his wife Melissa B. Kruger have been married for almost 25 years and have three children.
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