Shameless Self-Promotion
The New Testament (Apostolic Scriptures) can be compared to a pile of laundry. Some pieces are socks, some are shirts, some are pants, and so forth. Imagine you open your closet door and see this pile of clean laundry on the floor. You fish around in it looking for something to wear, and with a little bit of effort, you can put together an outfit. It might be wrinkled and...
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Is the Bible B.S.?
Dan Savage's talk at the National High School Journalism Conference went viral over the past couple of days and was also featured on main news sites such as CNN. In his address he states, We can learn to ignore the bullshit about gay people in the Bible the same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation,...
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Becoming A Better Boss
***This was first published on my personal blog: BoazMichael*** On Saturday night a group of us gathered together for the Meal of Messiah, which is a unique Seder that takes place at the close of the week of Pesach. It was a wonderful time--a time of singing, eating fish, and contemplating on the future work of the Messiah. At the conclusion of our Seder we went directly into Havdalah--a time,...
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Remembrance and Repentance
With the freedom of Passover on everyone's mind I would like to spend a moment reflecting on a time of great tragedy. The annual Shoah (Holocaust) memorial falls this year on April 19th and should be a time of remembrance and activism for every disciple of Yeshua. First Fruits of Zion is supporting this activism through one of our strengths--publishing. For years I have wanted to create of book that...
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Passover and the Death of James the Just
Tags: stoned, stoning
In issue 94 of Messiah Magazine I discussed the yarzeit (anniversary of the death) of Simon Peter as it is recorded in rabbinic literature. Since then I have become interested in trying to discover yarzeit dates for the rest of the Apostles. Unfortunately, this is almost impossible to do for most Apostles because there are simply no records. One exception is Yaakov HaTzaddik (James the Just) the brother of...
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Hosting Your First Passover Seder
Passover is coming! The Torah instructs us about many things on this holiday, including: We are to treat this season a holy and festive time (Leviticus 23:4-6). There are special foods that we are to eat (Exodus 12:8) and not eat (Exodus 12:15-19). We are to tell our children on that day about how God took us out from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 13:8). Since ancient times, all of...
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Devil's Children
The apostle John says that "the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother" (1 John 3:9). Robert Lancaster, my father now for more than forty years, spent a good deal of his life as a pastor. Since retiring from the ministry, he continues to minister into people's lives by sending out, short,...
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