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 …
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Rejoice, dear friends, rejoice! Jesus Christ, the King of Glory, fulfills the meaning of every Jewish feast! While the Old Testament laid out the ceremonies the Jews were to celebrate, brilliant pictures of the Messiah were woven mysteriously into the fabric of those feasts. But God declared through the prophet Amos that He does nothing …
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Jews around the world are celebrating Sukkot – the Feast of Tabernacles – right now. The 8-day celebration marks the end of the agricultural year and is, thus, a thanksgiving celebration. Deuteronomy 16:13-15 describes the Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) as a joyful celebration, and the Torah commands three things regarding the festival: Gather four …
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Over the past two days the US Supreme Court (by refusing to hear cases, thereby shirking their duty to settle issues of national importance) and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (by totally disregarding the voice of voters) have seemingly paved the way for same sex marriage. As a nation, America is spiraling out of …
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Looking for the Blessed Hope 