From: D. Thomas Lancaster
Messer and the Messianic Mess
Tags: Ralph Messer
Messianic blogs and websites are buzzing with the news of self-styled "Messianic Rabbi" Ralph Messer's recent desecration of a Torah scroll at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. A YouTube video shows Messer wrapping the scroll around Bishop Eddie Long in a mock coronation ceremony. Fortunately, representatives of the Messianic Jewish world have universally condemned Messer's actions. Ordained congregational leaders from both the UMJC and the IAMCS have...
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All Over the Map
Torah Club Volume Six: Chronicles of the Apostles is all over the map. Actually, it's all over several maps. Subscribers to Chronicles of the Apostles will receive a series of biblical maps including the Biblical Backgrounds () Middle East and Land of Israel maps and the DHE maps of Jerusalem and the Temple. We will use the maps extensively as we follow the story of the apostles, the travels of...
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Working with the Rabbi
Last week I finished the monumental Gospel commentary Chronicles of the Messiah. It was a great joy to spend the last 14 months immersed in the gospels. Before I started the project, I raided the First Fruits of Zion library for all the pertinent gospel commentaries I could find--three boxes of books! It ended up being far more than I could possibly read in a year, much less keep up...
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Torah Club Six Overview
At First Fruits of Zion, we are gearing up to begin production on Torah Club Volume Six: Chronicles of the Apostles. The customer service team at First Fruits of Zion is receiving a lot of questions about the new Torah Club. Today, they submitted a series of several questions about the new volume. Learn about the new Torah Club here. Read about the free book offer associated with the new...
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Three Free Books!
Back in 1989, I was attending the University of Minnesota. For a few months, I took a room in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in a bedroom in my sister's house. Her husband Mike, a graduate of Bethel Seminary, was teaching me how to make a living in the same manner as other men with seminary educations--painting houses and apartments. Over lunch, we often talked theology. In one of those conversations, I...
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Torah Study on the Apostles
The Torah is an ancient scroll containing the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy--the first five books of the Bible. But in Jewish vernacular, the word Torah can be used broadly to refer to the whole Bible, and the Oral Law as well. This is because the word "Torah" (תורה) is from the Hebrew root, yara (ירה) which means "to instruct," or "to teach." Although it does contain...
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I'm a Messianic Gentile
By now, most Christians have at least heard of "Messianic Jews," that is, Jewish believers in Yeshua of Nazareth who have retained their Jewish identity and continue to observe the Torah and practice Judaism in loyalty to Yeshua and their biblical heritage. Less well known and less understood are what we can call "Messianic Gentiles." I identify myself as a Messianic Gentile, and I am not alone. There are a...
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