Emphasis Preaching Journal

One of the worst memories for people of this century would be the Holocaust, that evil plan of the Nazis in Germany to eliminate the Jews from the face of the earth. But a recent survey found that 38 percent of all adults did not know what the term "holocaust" referred to. And among high school students the results were even more despairing, with 53 percent of the young people unable to recognize that term. In general, we are a people with a faulty memory of the past. But this passage from Hebrews challenges us not only to rehearse the facts about Jesus but also to reflect on the meaning.