Getting Started

Have you ever been persecuted for your faith? Some of you probably have. Maybe that took the form of a sarcastic comment or religious discrimination—missing a job or promotion. For others it might have meant an arrest and even imprisonment. That is certainly the case for many brothers and sisters around the world today.

Let’s find out what kind of message Hebrews was meant to be for believers who were at risk in the second half of the first century. And let’s discover how the author turned suffering and shame upside down.