The Case of Divorce, Remarriage, Divorce and Returning to the First Husband Deuteronomy 24:1-4 Deuteronomy 24 since it is often used as the definitive case regarding divorce. Ironically, it is in the section regarding theft, and it is about a very particular circumstance: A man takes a wife and marries her.She finds no favor in […]
The cost of mis-interpreting the Bible has been largely borne by women. Women’s voices have been under-represented in many of the loudest conversations about the sections of Scriptures that impact them most. This has further left women out of the conversation, as their very right to speak has been called into question. This is not […]
Growing up, I learned that Hanukkah, Passover, and Purim spoke of the need, motive, and way of social justice. Keeping the feasts and telling the stories kept us focused on the need to see and lift the oppression of others. We were moved to do so because we ourselves had suffered. We were compelled to […]
Bearing WitnessThere has been some comment and concensus among my friends, both black and white, that George Floyd is not a martyr. I agree, there is a sense in which a murder cannot be a martyrdom. Mr. Floyd did not lay down his life. It was taken from him senselessly, unjustly, and horribly. It breaks […]
From the 2020 Pandemic to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the winks and nods from the powers of this present darkness to those who seek to kill and destroy has left too many sisters and brothers vulnerable. It is not time to be silent but to cry out until the walls all come […]
this is the world into which God sent His Son. He could have looked at the human family and said, “I am staying out of this one.” But He didn’t. He chose to show up, to be here. This is the key. The tension of Christmas IS the wonder of Christmas.
Over the past 20 years I have integrated Torah studies with an understanding of New Testament Worship and Disicpleship. Below are some of the fruits of this work which I hope will benefit you as you study, teach, and grow in Messiah:
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 […]
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 […]
