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
The simple question, “What is the Gospel?” can be surprisingly divisive. After 20 years of following Messiah, I’ve come to realize that when the “Good News” is seen from a human perspective the answer will understandably be limited and incomplete. Imagine how powerful the unrealized fullness of the… Read More »Passover Is Only The Beginning