To my Jewish friends, "חג השבועות שמח" To my Christian friends, "Happy Pentecost!" Sundown this evening marks the beginning of the festival of Shavuot in Jewish tradition. Given that, I want to tie this Jewish feast and Christian observance together with several things we've touched on recently, so stick with me! In our study, Looking for …
Continue reading To Jews, it is Shavuot; to Christians it is Pentecost!
For Christians, we have just celebrated the most important day of the year: Resurrection Sunday. Christ is risen, and if that were not true, Christianity would crumble. We base our celebration on the Biblical accounts of Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection, which is succinctly wrapped up in this passage: For I delivered to you as of first …
Continue reading A Closer Look at Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits
Greetings friends! Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you find encouragement and hope in knowing that, though times may seem uncertain in our world today, our Lord Jesus Christ...the Blessed Hope...has promised to come again one day to take us to be with Him for eternity! What a magnificent promise that is! Just a …
Shalom friends! Several days ago we focused on God’s Plan of the End. A tenet of Christian faith is that Jesus Christ will come again to take us (believers) to live with Him forever. In fact, while teaching His disciples about end times, Jesus assured them with these words: “Do not let your heart be …
Continue reading Second Coming: Rapture or Glorious Appearing?
