RefreshingEDEN making all things new

How does it feel to be given a gift when you know there are strings attached? I’m sure none of us is keen to accept it. It feels so wrong, so confining, so not-a-gift! But have you ever yourself given a gift with strings attached? Maybe not verbally, but in all honesty, underneath there is probably often a sense of expectation of some kind. For instance, you expect some kind of thank you, right? And if no thank you is voiced? There niggles in you a little anger, a little resentment, a little judgment. Funny, isn’t it, how subtle these strings can be? I wonder if we ever do that with the great gift of Jesus? That’s what our lesson focuses on today in lesson 12.

To listen to the lecture on lesson 12 “Responding to the Freedom of Jesus”, click below:

(Note: this is a re-recorded lecture.  In other words, I taped this alone in my kitchen, with no class! The live class lecture did not begin taping until the middle and never made it to the end – but if you want to listen to that part anyway you’ll find it listed below as lesson 12 part 2)

HEB II lecture 12 full re-tape

For lecture outline:

Hebrews II Les 12

(for the partial class recording…:

HEB II Lecture 12 part 2