Getting a Little Blog Love from First Things, Matthew Cantirino
I noticed my traffic was up at MJ Musings today. A quick check revealed why. The First Things website has a blog called First Thoughts and Matthew Cantirino posted a link today (see it here) to last week’s article, “Why…
Quick, First Look: The Everlasting Jew, by R. Isaac Lichtenstein
My copy just arrived!! I will give a brief taste of my partially informed enthusiasm for the book. For a more substantive review, see Rabbi Joshua Brumbach’s article here. The words of Jordan Gayle Levy, a young Messianic Jew in…
Lichenstein, to be released next week!
Rabbi Joshua Brumbach gives a great book description here and explains the importance of the book.
Having a Spiritual Shavuot
If you’re going to do Shavuot this upcoming Wednesday, May 15, 2013, why not do it right? (Don’t know much about Shavuot? See bottom of this post: “Basics of Shavuot”). So, first and foremost, because this requires preparation, you must…
What Is Popular on a Messianic Blog?
So, it’s not exactly scientific, but I have observed trends since I started blogging in December 2006. In the six and a half years I have been doing this, I have looked at the number of readers I get on…
Is the Divine Messiah Worth Believing In?
The Spoken Word of God was in the world in the six days of creation, as it says, “And God said . . .” (Gen 1:3, and similar). The Word was with God and the Word was God and everything…
What’s So Great About Tentbuilders?
You gather at a Messianic synagogue or a church. People from hundreds of miles away have come. The group is not large, about thirty or so. But everyone there is connected heart and soul to messianic redemption, to a belief…
Book Discussion: Introduction to Messianic Judaism, Part 7
The fifth chapter in David Rudolph and Joel Willitts, eds., Introduction to Messianic Judaism (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013) is about Messianic Jews and Jewish tradition, by my mentor and friend, Carl Kinbar. Before discussing the contents of this chapter, there…
Leading in the Tent of David
Boaz Michael chose one of the most beautiful images in the prophets as the picture for his latest book, The Tent of David: “In that day I will raise up the tent of David that is fallen and repair its…
Old Testament 2.0
When I wrote Yeshua Our Atonement I attempted to get a fresh look at an old topic. How do the bloody sacrifices in the old Temple relate to the freedom of spirit a believer in Jesus should have today? I…
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