I'm going to start with a disclaimer: please stick with me through all of today's teaching. For some, it may cause great angst in the beginning. For some, you are going to want to pick up rocks to stone me. But understand that if you struggle with this teaching, you need to take it up with …
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God’s Message of Salvation for the Jews, from Acts 3
While studying about God's dealings with the Jews and with the nations, I enjoyed intriguing thoughts about a passage from Acts 3:18-20, and I want to share them: But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may …
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Let’s Explore the Death of Jesus
Hi gang! We’re diving to difficult depths today so I want to begin with a disclaimer. First, if you don’t know me, and don’t follow along regularly, you need to know that I absolutely love Israel and the Jewish people. By no means are they perfect, but they are God’s vehicle of world redemption and …
A Trip to the Galilee
Today (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) was Shabbat, so everything in Israel is pretty much shut down. Thus, we took the opportunity to make the two hour drive down to Galilee. "Down" has a different connotation in Israel because, though the Galilee area lies to the north of Jerusalem, one always goes "up" to Jerusalem, …
Looking for the Blessed Hope 