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1. Follow This Example When Someone Attacks Your Faith

In Matthew 22, we find the Sadducees attempting to trap Yeshua (Jesus) by asking Him a loaded question about the Torah or Laws of Israel. I am not going to recount the entire event in this article, but ...

Created on 29 August 2018

2. Where Millennials Have It Right About Social Justice

We live in a world which increasingly focuses on social justice. We hear about it on television. It has become a regular topic of politicians. It has even become a major fixture on sports and sporting ...

Created on 22 August 2018

3. Why You May Be Under This Curse and Not Even Know It

In the book of Galatians, we read an amazing passage that carries with it a message of freedom far beyond what we can even imagine. On the surface, these verses may seem as if the writer of the text, Paul, ...

Created on 15 August 2018

4. How Treating God's Promises as an 'If' Wrecks Your Spiritual Walk

Many years ago, when I was in high school, our school received its very first computers. Knowing that the world slowly was slowly transforming toward computer dependency, my father insisted I sign up for ...

Created on 07 August 2018

5. Why We Might Be Looking at This Old Testament Book All Wrong

There are many things in the Bible that help me to have confidence and faith in the overpowering forgiveness of G-D. One of the most significant is the book of Deuteronomy. Yes, the last book of the Torah, ...

Created on 23 July 2018

6. How Miracles of Israel Brought This Jew to Radical Faith in Jesus

Over the years, I have had many people ask me what was it that brought me from Judaism to Messianic Judaism. In other words, was there a significant event or moment that caused me to go from not believing ...

Created on 13 July 2018

7. Are Balaam's Words Still at Work Today?

One of the most beloved Bible stories found in the Torah takes place in Numbers 22. It is here where we read about Balaam and his talking donkey. Every child who has ever read a children's Bible is familiar ...

Created on 03 July 2018

8. What We Can't Afford to Forget During a Mighty Move of God

When people are trying to share Yeshua (Jesus) with those who do not yet believe that He is the Messiah, many times they will ask seekers to read the Book of John for many reasons (not the least of which ...

Created on 27 June 2018

9. Why You May Want to Completely Change the Way You Pray

My favorite days are the ones that begin with me waking up already thinking about G-D. Those days when the transition between sleeping and being awake (that almost dreamlike state) is filled with songs ...

Created on 11 June 2018

10. Why We Still Desperately Need the Old Testament

Recently, the internet has been filled with the discussion of the place and value of the Old Testament for believers in Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). Who it was that started the discussion is not nearly as important ...

Created on 31 May 2018

11. Are You Ready to Jump Into the Supernatural?

Recently, I was watching as one of the members of our congregation was playing with his little boy. They were in the grass behind our synagogue, where there are several tree stumps people usually use to ...

Created on 23 May 2018

12. What Role Should the Old Testament Play in Christians' Lives?

As a rabbi and teacher, I am often charged with trying to make difficult concepts understandable. One way to make things more understandable is to use parables, as Yeshua (Jesus) did. Other times, I try ...

Created on 18 May 2018

13. 6 Steps We Must Take to See People Resurrected From the Dead

I was listening to a sermon recently, and the speaker was sharing about a very familiar section of Scripture from John 11, which dealt with Lazarus being raised from the dead. As the speaker gave this ...

Created on 07 May 2018

14. Does God Have a Plan B?

In my travels speaking around the world, I have noticed a surprising number of believers in Yeshua (Jesus) who demonstrate both great faith and great fear. Most know that fear is a spiritual, emotional ...

Created on 03 May 2018

15. Why the Bible Reveals Abraham's Doubt and Sin in So Much Detail

In Judaism, Abraham is referred to as the father of our faith, and when we pray, we often pray to the G-D of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—our patriarchs. Because we do so, we often find ourselves attributing ...

Created on 23 April 2018

16. Why Christians Can't Afford to Be Ignorant of God's Prophetic Timeline Right Now

We are entering a period, a season, that is of tremendous prophetic importance to the entire body of Messiah. Yet, many within the body of believers have little or no expectations that something significant ...

Created on 20 April 2018

17. What Every Husband Needs to Understand About Ephesians 5

The other day, I was changing the channels on my television when I hit a station and heard the voice of a well-known preacher. He was speaking on the subject of marriage, which is a favorite topic of mine, ...

Created on 11 April 2018

18. What Ephesians 5 Teaches Us About Christ as Our Husband

The other day, I was watching a young couple that had just started their relationship as a couple. As I watched them trying to figure each other out as the dynamics of their relationship had shifted, I ...

Created on 28 March 2018

19. This Is Why the Bible Feels So Dry When You Read It

A friend once sent me a video of an artist on YouTube. The man stood in front of a crowd with a large canvas in front of him and as he talked to the people, he was brushing colors onto the canvas. He continued ...

Created on 20 March 2018

20. Why God Wants Christians to Live in the Moment

I love it when a child teaches me a lesson. This morning, I had to opportunity to sit with one of the young boys from our synagogue, while his mother went to an appointment. We had a great time as he showed ...

Created on 15 March 2018