Hebrews 7:23-28

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A friend of mine has a slate roof business that has been passed down in his family.  He is a true artisan in copper and slate, and has completed custom work on buildings as famous as Heinz Hall.  His step-father, Joseph Jenkins wrote The Slate Roof Bible and is famous the world over for proclaiming the value of slate roofs which can last many hundreds of years.  He refers to asphalt shingle roofs as “temporary” roofs, and speaks of how inferior they are with their constant need to be replaced, at ever increasing cost.  Every twenty or so years new shingles must be installed as the old ones disintegrate.  Whereas a stone roof might just be getting started after its first century.  How foolish it is to be in love with the…