Following are the remainder of the congregational models I have identified which are now observable in and around the Messianic Jewish Movement. See how many of these models you have encountered, and which ones do you think are good news and which bad news for the Messianic Jewish movement and for the Jewish people? To see […]
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Following are some of the congregational models now observable in and around the Messianic Jewish Movement. I say "around" because all sorts of barnacles have clung to the hull of this particular ship. See how many of these models you have encountered, and which ones do you think are good news and which bad news for […]
Another American journalist, Steven J. Sotloff, has been heartlessly beheaded by the agents of ISIS. Having just read about this, my desire is to see the perpetrators and their henchmen bombed into oblivion, imagining them crawling along the desert floor seeking a hole to hide in from the terror that is raining down upon them, and finding none. Was […]
The gruesome carnage in Northern Iraq, with beheadings and other unspeakable acts of barbarity, is nothing new. Rather it marks the resurfacing of abominations that were common in that area before the region was called by that name, and at least a thousand years before Islam. Once upon a time, this was Assyria. From its beginnings, […]
Mark Twain reminds us that "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes," while Mao Zedong said, "A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth." In this regard there are many lies being told about Israel in order to discredit the Jewish state and advance the […]
Behind the façade of polite, Liberal sounding, "morally concerned" rhetoric, the BDS Movement is a well-funded and coordinated campaign of Machiavellian character and malignant intent. This week, one of my goals is to pass on some information and insights gained through reading The BDS War Against Israel: The Orwellian Campaign to Destroy Israel Through the […]
It will require some intense reading on my part, but next week I will spend some time on these pages discussing two books which interest me and confirm intuitions I have long held. One is Jed Babbin with Herbet London, The BDS War Against Israel: The Orwellian Campaign to Destroy Israel Through the Boycot, Divestment and Sanctions […]
I recently posted a blog about the value and priority of living a focused life. I have admired focused lives for at least forty years. And in recently reading Joseph Telushkin’s study on the life and work of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, I drank deeply from a remarkably focused life. Telushkin said that researching […]
“I consider my own life of no importance to me whatsoever, as long as I can finish the course ahead of me, the task I received from the Lord Yeshua” (Paul the Apostle, speaking to the people of Ephesus, in Acts 20:24, CJB). I like what Paul says here and I fully identify with it: […]
Judy Garland reminded us that over the rainbow "the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." Here are three dreams from over my rainbow. You might dream these too! #1 - What if Jews who believed in Yeshua [JBY] really lived Jewish lives, walking in the patterns of Jewish tradition, but with […]
