“How Did this Happen?”

So, I left you hanging yesterday, didn't I?  We're studying God's love story and I set up today's discussion by asking you what the first question is when you see two people in love.  What's the question? "How did you meet?" We want to hear about how the love story began!  In God's love story, …

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Jewish Police Officer Finds Messiah

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ~Romans 1:16 Though God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, do you realize salvation was for the Jew first?  As Gentiles, God's grace …

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Gentiles Hear the Gospel for the First Time

This is exciting stuff, my Gentile friends!  (If you are Jewish, please pardon us as we celebrate this tremendous gift today.) Jesus used Jews to take the Gospel to the Gentiles for the very first time!  As we learned yesterday, Paul was sent to the Gentiles after being rejected by the Jews.  However, the Jewish …

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God’s Call to Abraham to Birth the Jewish People

Hi gang!  Here in Phoenix I'm in the midst of teaching a new study entitled Why Israel Matters: Rightly Relating to Our Jewish Roots, and we have studied about a special purpose God has given the Jewish people: to bless all the families of the earth (Genesis 12:3). In fact, last week I posted two pieces …

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