Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Its Ecclesial Context and Biblical Foundations
Messianic Judaism is the most exciting movement of our time. Its rebirth in the 1900s was, in a very real sense, a restoration of something that had been lost for over a thousand years—a functional Jewish body of believers in Jesus that continues to identify with Judaism and with the Jewish people. An ever-growing body of scholarship testifies that the early Jerusalem church likewise maintained a self-identity within Judaism and...
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God-Fearers: Shavuot for All Nations
With Shavuot just around the corner, I thought I would post some material about Shavuot from my book God-Fearers. The New Testament highlights the festival of Shavuot as the time of the outpouring of God’s Spirit in Acts 2, but another reference to the festival in Acts 20 gives us evidence of Gentile believers celebrating this important Torah festival: For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he...
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Getting Pentecostal
Last Sunday night I had the great pleasure of speaking at a Pentecostal church. It was really wonderful. I wish I could have canned the energy, the passion, the simplicity, and the spirit that was there to take it home with me. My experience is actually pretty hard to capture in words. It was a beautiful evening with beautiful people of God. And, that night, I did something pretty radical...
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God-Fearers: Rabbinic Perspectives on Being Grafted In
In light of the release of God-Fearers, I am doing a series of blogs that further explain the purpose of the book as well as share some of my personal story behind it. One of the most important works of Messiah was bringing Gentiles into the commonwealth of Israel. If it weren’t for the Master extending the mission of salvation to the Gentiles, only the Jewish people would have had...
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God-Fearers: Earth Day and Genesis
In light of the release of God-Fearers, I am doing a series of blogs that further explain the purpose of the book as well as share some of my personal story behind it. Today is the secular holiday of Earth Day where the world celebrates the gift of creation and dedicates itself to better preservation of the environment. Although it is slightly off topic to my book God-Fearers, I have...
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God-Fearers: Sunday and Sun Worship
In light of the release of God-Fearers, I am doing a series of blogs that further explain the purpose of the book as well as share some of my personal story behind it. Last week I posted a blog on Christianity’s transition from a Saturday Sabbath to a Sunday Sabbath. I proposed that this change took place quite rapidly once Christianity had severed its ties with Judaism. Early believers would...
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God-Fearers: From Saturday to Sunday
In light of the release of God-Fearers, I am doing a series of blogs that further explain the purpose of the book as well as share some of my personal story behind it. It is obvious from the Gospels and the book of Acts that the Master and the early Jewish disciples had a high regard for the commandment of Shabbat. The New Testament contains no hint of the Sabbath...
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