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From: D. Thomas Lancaster

 

We Need Your Help

As we prepare to launch the new Torah Club Volume Four: Chronicles of the Messiah, we are turning to you for help. We are praying that the new Volume Four will be our most successful Torah Club ever, introducing brothers and sisters to the Jewishness of the Gospels and opening doors within the Christian Church to the Jewish Roots of our faith. We need your help though to get the...
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The Gospel Code

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?

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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Gates of Hades

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

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

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

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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Touring Masada Part 1

Tags:  israel, Lessons from the Land, masada

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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