This week I attended a screening of the soon to be released documentary, Emanuel. Emanuel is a documentary about the untold story of the victims and survivors of the Charleston Church shooting. The weight of the documentary comes from the intimate interviews with the survivors and the families of the victims. The documentary lets them…
This past Saturday, around nine in the morning in Israel, Hamas and Islamic Jihad initiated a new round of rocket attacks against Israel. In the course of two days, they indiscriminately launched 690 rockets. Air-raid sirens and phone alerts took over as Israel’s national soundtrack. Tens of thousands of southern Israelis in harm’s way spent…
Think on this: “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God,and they will be my people.” (Jeremiah 31:33) Pray like this: Father, increase the Remnant in…
Think on this: “For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (I Corinthians 5:7-8) Pray like this: Gracious Father, hasten the day when the world will acknowledge Jesus as the Passover Lamb of…
In Exodus 13, the Bible presents a holy script for the holiday of Passover. Essentially, God designed a ritual which makes certain that the Jews institute the Exodus in their collective memory. Their Egypt experience binds them as a people who share a history of oppression but also one where they are commanded to remember…
Think on this: “Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will b saved.” (Romans 9:27) Pray like this: Father, enlarge the remnant that will say of Jesus, “Blessed is He that comes in the name of Yahweh” (Matthew 23:39) In Jesus’ name,…
Jethro is first introduced in the Bible when Moses escapes Egypt and flees to Midian—somewhere in northwestern Saudi Arabia. The justice-driven prophet Moses instinctively defends Jethro’s daughters from rowdy shepherds, even though he is on the run from Egyptian law. Grateful, Jethro opens his home to Moses, despite his refugee status, and gives him his…
THIS IS HUGE!!! In a televised interview last night, Prime Minister Netanyahu has finally announced that he plans to apply Israeli sovereignty to Jewish towns and cities in Judea & Samaria. This announcement is huge, moving the goalpost away from the “two-state solution”, that never even had a chance, to the actual sole solution of…
Think like this: “On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram saying, ‘To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.’” (Genesis 15:18) Pray like this: Heavenly Father, be pleased to fulfill all your promises to the seed of Abraham in Jesus’ name AMEN!
Purim has all of the kid flare of Halloween: treats, costumes and permission to be super loud, but with none of the darkness that Halloween brings out. Purim is the holiday when Jews (and many Christians) remember the story of Esther. Esther was an ordinary Jewish girl who became Queen of the Persian Empire. God…