Yesterday I took about thirty minutes or so to watch the long and emotional acceptance speech delivered by Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma Thunder (basketball team), on the occasion of his receiving this year’s National Basket Association Most Valuable Player Award. The young man is 25, a believer in Yeshua, an extraordinary athlete and an […]
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A few days ago we examined the question, "What kind of Jesus are we talking about?" Today I want to visit another question: What kind of Peopel of God are we talking about? In both cases, our beginning point is Yeshua's conversation with the Samaritan woman, as recorded in John, Chapter Four. The earlier discussion […]
What does it mean to be a Jewish community? What are some of the reasons given for Jewish people keeping the commandments of HaShem? What does this week’s parasha [Behar] say about the benefits of keeping these commandments? Does keeping these commandments have anything to do wIth us as Messianic Jews? Let’s look at these […]
What follows is a thought from a chapter in my upcoming book, tentatively titled, "Converging Destinies: Jews, Christians, and the Mission of God." This is one of my core convictions. Could it become yours too? In John, chapter four, Yeshua identifies himself as a Jew when he says to the woman at the well, “we […]
My friend Michael asked this question in a Facebook discussion of one of my blogs this week. I promised to respond on my FAQ/Q&A Friday blog, and here it is. And again, his question was, "If Jesus is the Messiah then why do things seem to be getting worse and worse?" There are variations on […]
In our calendrical march toward Shavuot, each week we are reading a successive chapter of Pirkei Avot, a small tractate in the Mishna containing rabbinic epigrams about life and piety. This is our third week, and so we are in the third chapter. In the third chapter, we find three statements attributed to Chanina ben […]
Every Tuesday I teach Bible to a Communist. Actually, she is a British Jewish woman who confessed to me upon joining our group that she was both a communist and atheist. But she was not a militant communist nor atheist. She felt that Communism was more attentive to social justice issues that other political systems. […]
Today’s Torah Tuesday lesson is from this week’s Torah reading in Leviticus 24. It has a lesson for all of us that will make us aware not simply of our own problems, but of the problems we create for others–problems in their relationship with God. 10 There came out among the Israelites one whose mother […]
This lesson is my expansion on a masterful lesson I heard about forty years ago from Steffi Geiser. I was impressed. I took notes. Later I developed the thoughts myself, Credit to whom credit is due. This lesson is as important today as it was then. See if you don't recognize situations familiar to you […]
Today is another "See What I Mean Sunday" and therefore time for a visionary posting on the Interfaithfulness blog. Today is also Yom HaShoah, that terrible day in the Jewish calendar when we pause to commemorate the unthinkable, the indescribable, the unprecdented--the slaughter of six million Jews, including 1.5 million babies and children as a […]
