promise, Deut. 31:6); being surrounded by hateful people (the first person to talk to God using these exact words, Ps. 118:6). But the text is intended by God to wear her personalizations. Teri and I use Hebrews 13:5–6 in exactly the same way that the pastor who wrote Hebrews used the two Old Testament bits of Bible to speak to his people’s current struggle. Fourth, in compact form this passage contains the three core ingredients of the change dynamic: orientation, promise, and response. These words