I was told recently that I might not be a good PhD candidate because of my academic bias. I written this person saying I had grown up thinking of the Hebrew Scriptures less of religious text and more as a family history. Further, I read the New Testament for the first time as an adult […]
The complaint is often made that religion causes wars. It divides people, we are told, and they fight over whose God is right. As many wars as I have seen and read about, in the end, few of them appear to be over who is the true prophet, or which is the true God. We […]
This morning I read from the Book of Ezra: 3 When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem. 2 Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings […]
In the last week as I have watched and prayed and cried regarding things in Israel, I could not help but think of John’s closing vision in Revelation. Here are two sections of that vision: “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride […]
Most of these songs have waited 30 years to be recorded. Now, with full orchestration and a large sound, they are about to land on all the major streaming platforms. You can get a preview here. The first song up is the one I finished over the weekend. It is called, I’ll Know. Sometimes the […]
This weekend I recorded a song I wrote about 35 years ago. It is a near word for word account of a conversation with a woman who immigrated from Europe to small town New England, where she grew old but never felt accepted. It is the sort of conversation I have had many times since. […]
From the years 1985 to 1990, I spent hours a day performing music in Harvard Square and in the subway stations of Boston in Cambridge. I wrote a lot of songs during that time in part so I would have new things to play. A lot of these songs I never recorded, others I never […]
Whether you are passing through rejection, sorrow, sickness, injury, God in Christ not only meets you in it, but helps you to carry it.
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 […]
