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Yeshua Gets Political
Recently I did what I do every Wednesday night: I taught a Bible Study, this one, on passages from Luke 7-10. This morning as I woke up, I realized that […]
A (Belated) Fourth of FIve Questions for Pesach – Question (What About Torah Observance?)
Last Passover I began a series responding to five questions imbedded in a readers response to a video I had posted. You may see that video here: The five questions […]
A Word for Couch Potatoes: Learning to Value Your Problems
For lots of folks, avoiding problems is their main coping strategy. In fact, for many, life is all about avoidance: avoiding certain people, avoding certain subjects, avoiding thinking about how […]
God's Tail Lights: A Message From the Depressed to the Depressed
I have spent most of my life depressed to one degree or another. As a shrink said to me when we began talking decades ago, he found that the most […]
The Five Questions: Something Extra for Pesach – Question #3 (What About Discipleship/Discipling?)
This continues a series of blogs originating in a response to a Red Door Diary video I posted where I highlighted (and lamented) the Messianic Jewish Movement’s general failure to […]
The Five Questions: Something Extra for Pesach – Question #2 (God's Purposes and the Gentile Presence in the Messianic Movement)
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 […]
The Five Questions: Something Extra for Pesach - Question #1 (The Prioritization of Outreach)
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, […]
Beyond the Bumper Sticker Gospel
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 […]
The Mah Zot (What is This?) Principle
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. […]