On July 17, 2004 I was asked to say a few words at my own service of ordination. This what I said then. I pray it is always increasingly true in my life: When God poured his grace out on me in the year of 1988, it did not occur to me that the call […]
In translating 1 Timothy, I came an attribute necessary to those in Christian leadership- they should be “xenophiles.” This is generally translated “hospitable” but we might better say, “a lover of the stranger”. In the ancient Jewish context, the “stranger” usually refers to one from beyond our borders and culture. In today’s political atmosphere that […]
Maybe we expect Paul to echo The Sayings of the Fathers. One section, attributed to Hillel sounds almost exactly like Paul in 1 Timothy 6. In my most recent reading of the Pirkei Avot, I have been noticing many similarities between the sayings of the Fathers and the sayings of my Great Rabbi. Here is […]
Do you know of a holiday that celebrated the Fall harvest and took time to thank God for providing for the people as they settled in a new land? This holiday is introduced in Leviticus 23:39-44. It was not celebrated on the third Thursday of November but on the 15th day of the 7th month […]
I have started this blog in hopes of providing a window into the work I have been doing over the past twenty years, as a pastor, a poet, and a painter. In my preaching, as a Jewish believer in Jesus, I have sought to bring to the fore the unity of the Bible with Messiah […]
They say the way to begin a journey is “one small step”. But that is generally for those who are beginning at the beginning. What about those who find ourselves beginning in the middle?
