The sad reality is that as Hebrews, we have lost the full instruction book as to how YHWH would have us read the signs of the seasons. We are forced to embrace his sovereignty here. Maybe God knew that if we were certain about his dates and methods we’d simply… Read More »Passover: Timing is Everything (Part 3)
There are a few important milestones in the life of a small child that are enthusiastically celebrated as major achievements by the adults around them: First steps, first words, and learning to read and write. (Maybe if my own parents had celebrated those a bit better, these articles… Read More »Passover: Timing is Everything (Part 2)
Here’s a stumper of a question for Protestant and Evangelical Christians: Without looking at an iPhone or a store-bought calendar, could you personally predict and schedule Easter Sunday each and every year? Groundhog Day, sure. Superbowl Sunday, probably. But Easter? How do you calculate the date of Easter?… Read More »Passover: Timing is Everything (Part 1)
I don’t like calling the New Testament “new” because I’ve yet to find anything new in it. It’s the Most Recent Testament, I’ll agree to that much—but every element, everything that Messiah taught, God’s complete expectations for Israel, even the final events in the Book of Revelation are based on principles way back in… Read More »Passover 101: Part 3
Here’s that other part of the original promise to Abraham I left out in part 1: Genesis 15:13-14, “Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be slaves there, and they will… Read More »Passover 101: Part 2
Even you’ve never heard the Passover story, here’s an overview (in 3 parts) starting…in the beginning. In the beginning, all things were perfect, and humans were placed within that perfect creation. Mankind, at the time only Adam and Eve, were given the choice to remain in that perfect… Read More »Passover 101: Part 1
More than ever, it seems like “woke” America finds the concept of “cultural appropriation” insulting at the least, and racist at worst. I would imagine that the phrase “woke America” is insulting as well, now that I think of it. The term “cultural appropriation” is defined by Oxford… Read More »Cultural Appropriation and Passover
In 2004, my wife and I were invited to a small rural Christian congregation who offered a “teaching” Passover Seder each spring. In Judaism, this meal remembers and celebrates the initial release of the Hebrew Israelites from slavery in Egypt. In Hebrew, ‘seder’ means “order” and since a Jewish… Read More »An Introduction To Celebrating Passover
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Seems easy enough. I think any mature believer in the Bible has wrestled with the idea of lying–when its permitted and when its not. The easiest example is Rehab lying about the spies hidden on her roof, for example.… Read More »Social Media and the Ninth Commandment
For those on The Way, there is often talk about the Pilgrim’s first Thanksgiving and how the themes align so closely with those of Sukkot. Some go as far as claiming that the Pilgrims KNEW they were celebrating Sukkot–just not on time. I’ve never seen evidence of this… Read More »George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thanksgiving, and Sukkot