This post is the second in a series related to a comment responding to a Facebook video, one of my Red Door Diaries, where I highlighted the Messianic Jewish Movement’s general failure to attract other Jews to Yeshua-faith. In my previous blog I responded to the first section of her response. Today, I respond to […]
I recently posted a video on Facebook where I highlighted the Messianic Jewish Movement’s general failure to attract other Jews to Yeshua-faith. In response, a good friend wrote the following, which I will address in a series of blogs. I am breaking up her comments into numbered paragraphs for ease of following, and giving each […]
Personal experience and a half century of study convinces me that the good news of Yeshua can and does revolutionize one’s life in ways beyond prior imagining. Furthermore, I believe this good news has implications for restructuring reality as we have known it. It is much bigger and utterly other than providing a platform for […]
This is a drash, a Torah lesson requested of me and submitted to the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC.org). I thought you would want to see it here too. Many thanks to Rabbi Russ Resnik for his always attentive and tasteful editing. Like a pot of cool water that is gradually heated until the […]
“The fool is the precursor to the savior (Karl Jung).” You have to be a fool to advance because when you first move in your new direction, what the hell do you know? You’re just a bumbling dimwit! But you won’t he that for long, that’s the thing! Jordan B. Peterson Some people wrongly imagine […]
Guess what. Christianity is not a dirty word. Some people, MANY people, have a naive version of Messianic Judaism which is really a kind or proof-texty hodge-podge of a personalist Torah orientation, AND they believe this to be an elite religion for the world in contrast to an “apostate” church which “fails to keep […]
What follows is a detailed review and something of a summary of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, by Priya Parker, (New York: Riverhead Press), 2018. I will be making this volume a foundational influence in how I plan events of whatever shape or size. I think you will too. […]
George Herbert Walker Bush is dead . . . or is he? If you have read any of the reflections the past few days, as I have, you will discover the magnitude of his love for wife Barbara, and you will read how she regretted that in dying, she was leaving behind her beloved George, […]
There is a certain amount of mystery involved in how people come to faith in the Messiah. This is doubly so for Jewish people. How does this happen? And how might we aid in the process? This blog-post seeks to address these issues. Charles Kraft, Professor of Anthropology at the Fuller Seminary School of Interculural […]
A hundred and fifty years ago people felt compelled to follow the truth when they were shown it. It doesn’t work that way any more, does it? Here is the key to keep in mind: People will only care about your explanations when they covet your experiences.Yeshua said he would make us fishers of people. […]