A Quick Word to Christmas Paganoids
People cut flowers in the spring because new flowers are coming out. People cut evergreens in the early winter because, with the leaves dying, the evergreens become the last green things in the landscape. The modern use of holly, evergreen…
Video, Why the New Testament?
When each of these letters, biographies, and other texts were written, no one thought all twenty-seven would be collected into one “New Testament.” They are a collection of literature from a movement. And there is something in common between the…
Mainstream vs. Crankpot Scholarship
Examples of myths propagated on so-called Hebraic and Messianic websites (myths believed by hundreds of thousands to be true and perhaps by 50% of the people reading this blog post): Jews in Jeremiah’s day put up Christmas trees causing the…
How Not to Comment on a Blog
Sometimes I read blogs in areas besides theology and biblical studies. And sometimes I disagree strongly with the blogger. Occasionally in such cases, I decide to comment. When I do, I never start with something like, “Are you feeling well?…
Benjamin’s First Messianic Jewish Christmas Day
You may remember several posts in the past about the adventures or a very real person, name changed to protect the innocent, Benjamin from Metropolis. Thus time, Benjamin writes in his own hand about his first Christmas day with the…
Apostolic Writings, Reading with Fresh Eyes
The apostles were great minds — people in touch with deep mysteries — and we should read them deeply.The Apostolic Writings (New Testament, Apostolic Scriptures) were written to the early communities of Yeshua to help the people understand living by…
CLASSIC REPRINT: Joseph and the Covenant of Blessing
Our Torah readings at present are in the Joseph narratives. This post on the meaning of Joseph’s story represents a challenge to Judaism and Christianity to mutually bless one another. It’s really at the heart of what Messianic Judaism is…
Fallen Priesthood: Hanukkah Theme #1
What lessons do Christians and Messianic Jews need to learn from Hanukkah? The story of Simon the Just, Jason, and Menelaus has a message for us. History is not only remembered in Judaism, but celebrated in ritual, song, prayer, and…
Birth of Messiah, YIC Blog Video
The gospels are full of meaning. New layers are revealed the deeper we dig. Here is a thought about the Birth of Messiah stories (infancy narratives) and how the theory that the infancy narratives are the last part of the…
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Galatians 3:19-21, Jew and Gentile in Abraham’s Seed
Sometimes Paul says the most undiplomatic things about the law. And these sayings are largely responsible for the historic Christian misunderstanding of the law and Judaism. Paul says positive and negative things about the law and about the Jewish people….