Well, my new book, Converging Destinies: Jews, Christians, and the Mission of God," is OUT. It is so new that you can only get it on the publisher's website at http://wipfandstock.com/converging-destinies.html. It is not yet available on Amazon. That will have to wait a week or so. But the good news is that if you […]
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In a couple of months, I will be speaking in Chicago to a group of sophisticated Christians, Jews who believe in Jesus, and some curious Jewish people. My topic will be, “Is Your Gospel Good News for the Jews?” As I demonstrate conclusively in my forthcoming book, “Converging Destinies: Jews, Christians, and the Mission of […]
What follows is a tiny and edited snippet from the first chapter of my soon to be released book, Converging Destinies: Jews, Christians, and the Mission of God (Eugene, OR: WIpf and Stock, 2017). It is offered here to inform, to stimulate discussion, and even to whet your appetite for the book when it comes out […]
It was probably 1957 or 1958, when I was thirteen or fourteen, that I saw West Side Story with my parents. After all, Leonard Bernstein was a M.O.T. (Member Of the Tribe) and therefore we just had to go. It was great. Still remember the experience, and that was certainly in a universe far far […]
As part of my current responsibilities, I teach a fantastic women's havurah in Los Angeles. Last night we were looking together at Luke Chapter 4, and it occurs to me that this passage has something to say that shines the light of spirituality on the current political turmoil in the United States. After his immersion […]
This blog post reviews another book by Steve Addison, Pioneering Movements: Leadership That Multiplies Disciples and Churches. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books), 2015. His lessons about churches (very small churches by design) are very applicable to the HaB'er Havurah Network, which I am currently forming and coordinating, a group of Jewish and Intermarried households that are […]
I spoke to one of my editors and discovered that my book, Converging Destinies: Jews, Christians, and the Mission of God should be out within about two months. And you can be sure I will be telling you MORE about that book as the days draw near. Meanwhile, I am working on another, which I already […]
The three R's, Research, Reading, and wRiting. I just gotta. That's why a scholarly book of mine, Converging Destinies: Jews, Christians, and the Mission of God is is right now at the publishers, awaiting an index, and a release . . . please God, make it soon. Meanwhile, another book is brewing. Working on it right now. It's about […]
As someone with a long history in and around the Messianic Jewish Movement, I was fascinated and enriched by reading a book by Steve Addison, titled Movements That Change the World: Five Keys to Spreading the Gospel. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books), 2011. If you care about movements, how they grow, and how they die, […]
Steve Addison, What Jesus Started: Joining the Movement Changing the World. Downers Grove: IVP Books, 2012. Steve Addison and his wife Michelle lead MOVE, “a mission agency devoted to training and deploying workers who multiply communities of Jesus’ disciples everywhere” (back cover). He is the author of Movements That Change the World: Five Keys to […]
