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Va’etchanan – I Beseech You
In this parashat Moses pleads with G-d to be permitted to enter the promised land and he is told no. This no has no room for error, according to story, it is the people’s disobedience that prohibits Moses who has come so far from entering the promised land. He is only to see it from…
Read MoreThe Pastor’s Eye Exam
An open response to Andy Stanley who says that Christians need to ‘unhitch themselves from the Jewish Scriptures’ (the Old Testament). I’m teaching on this at church tomorrow, I spoke about it at Synagogue today and I will be teaching about this at the Chazon Conference in Bogota Colombia next week. Let me be clear.…
Read MoreShabbat Shalom
Shabbat Shalom is a Sabbath greeting. We say it in our Synagogue every Saturday morning. I am a Christian pastor. My father is also a pastor, so I grew up in a pastors home. I’m what people refer to as a “PK“. A preachers kid. Growing up in church there were things we simply didn’t…
Read MorePentecost at Sinai
Christians think of the ‘Day of Pentecost’ in terms of what happened in Acts Chapter 2 in the year of Yeshua’s (Jesus’) Ascension. Jews from everywhere heard the good news in their own languages and ‘tongues of fire’ came to rest on the heads of people. This is NOT however the first Pentecost. This holy…
Read MoreThe State of the Kingdom
Tonight was the state of the union speech. Some love our current president and some do not. It occurs to me that this country was started as a way to come out from under the authority of a king. At least for believers like me there is a longing for a king to come and…
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