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The Gospel Code

By D. Thomas Lancaster | Comments (1)
3 hours ago

The average churchman is finally figuring out what New Testament scholars have always known: Jesus was Jewish. He wasn't Jewish like a famous actor might be Jewish. For example, you might have watched a lot of old Star Trek episodes and never known that both Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner were Jewish. Shatner doesn't look particularly Jewish, and Nimoy looks Vulcan. On the show, neither of them do anything...
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So You Think You Know Jesus?

By D. Thomas Lancaster | Comments (2)
July 23, 2010

Most Christians claim to know Jesus, but most of us don't. Yes, we know Him as our Lord and Savior, and we know a few parables, a few miracles, and about how he died and rose, but it pretty much stops there. It is possible to be a Christian your whole life and never get to know the real, historical, Yeshua of Nazareth, the first century, Galilean-Jewish rabbi. Of course,...
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The Ninth of Av: "Blessed Are Those Who Mourn"

By Toby Janicki | Comments (1)
July 20, 2010

This year the ninth of Av begins at sundown on July 19th. Being told "no" is seldom a pleasant experience, especially when that answer is preceded by great hopes and expectations. It can take a long time to heal emotions after the sting of rejection is felt. Such is the case in parasha Shelach. Here the children of Israel are given an answer that proves to be almost more than...
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Do you want to know Yeshua better?

Tags: Gospels, Know Jesus Better, Torah Club

By Boaz Michael | Comments (0)
July 18, 2010

Eight years ago (2002), we introduced you to Torah Club Volume Four: The Good News of Messiah, a commentary on the Gospels and Acts. This fall, we are doing it all over with a whole new version of Volume Four titled Chronicles of the Messiah. The new Volume Four completely rearranges Torah Club's weekly Gospel readings to create a year-long journey through the life of the Master from his birth...
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Yeshua's Voice of Sarcasm

By Boaz Michael | Comments (0)
July 7, 2010

Our new Hebrew/English version of the four Gospels is moving along nicely. Every day our translators and reviewers are making more progress. Our goal for the Delitzsch translation of the Gospels is different than most other Bible translations. Ordinarily, a "good" translation is one that renders the text into the target language so smoothly and naturally that it completely obscures the idiosyncrasies of the source language. A good translation presents...
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Upcoming Meetings (MO, OH, MI)

By Boaz Michael | Comments (0)
June 18, 2010

We will be presenting "The Jewish Sermon on the Mount: Exploring the Core Teachings of Jesus from a Hebraic Perspective" in several locations throughout MO, OH, and MI the last two weeks of June. If you are in these states check out our events page for meeting information. There will be several more listings posted after Sabbath. Events Listings In the seminar we will be presenting the new "Delitzsch Hebrew...
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Gates of Hades

Tags: banyas, Caesarea Philippi, gates of hades, gates of hell, israel, Lessons from the Land

By D. Thomas Lancaster | Comments (0)
June 14, 2010

Episode 6: Touring the ruins of the ancient pagan cult center of Banyas located in northern Israel brings Matthew 16 to mind. Biblically known as Caesarea Philippi, Banyas was a site of a Greek pagan temple dedicated to Pan, a goat-footed god of music and goat herds. Is it possible that Yeshua and his disciples, all Torah observant Jews, could have come into proximity of this center of pagan worship?...
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Touring Masada Part 3

Tags: israel, Lessons from the Land, masada, tour

By D. Thomas Lancaster | Comments (0)
June 2, 2010

Episode 5: Touring Masada will feature several interesting highlights of this ancient desert fortress and some lessons that can be learned from the events that took place there in the first century. In this third installment Steven Lancaster speaks about the fall of Masada and Daniel Lancaster addresses the zealot energy that peaked in the first century and how Yeshua sought to harness and redirect that energy. In this video...
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Touring Masada Part 2

Tags: israel, Lessons from the Land, masada

By D. Thomas Lancaster | Comments (0)
May 29, 2010

In this video blog, Daniel and Steven Lancaster join together to give you a glimpse into the holy land of Israel. Archaeology, geography, geology, along with the language and cultural history of the Land and the People of Israel make the words of the Torah, the Psalms, and the Prophets - the Scriptures of Israel - come alive. In this video blog you'll get a raw peak into the experience...
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Intro to the Shema (Part III)

Tags: bible, christianity, god, Jesus, jewish roots, Judaism, messianic judaism, religion, shema, torah, yeshua

By Aaron Eby | Comments (3)
May 19, 2010

The Shema begins with an acknowledgment of God's oneness, followed by a commandment to love Him. I have showed how those two concepts are related and that acknowledgment of God's oneness leads us to love Him. Our text continues by instructing that we must teach God's words repeatedly to our children, and speak of them when we are sitting in our homes, when we are walking on the road, when...
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The modern Messianic Jewish movement is birthed out of Christian missionary efforts to evangelize the Jewish people, but how does the rediscovery of Torah impact that original mission? In a series of five lectures, Torah Club author D. Thomas Lancaster considers the implications of trying to bring the Gospel to a post-modern world from a Messianic, Torah-based perspective.

Lancaster challenges conventional assumptions about effective evangelism and offers suggestions for rethinking outreach. What About Evangelism? encourages us all to do our part to advance the Kingdom of Heaven on earth by reaching out to "the lost sheep of Israel" and raising up many disciples. Order now and learn more!