I wrote an article on my official page on Howard Zinn’s two histories of the United States, one the extensive one and one for high schools. My daughter read these and alerted me to the fact that Zinn’s text was …
Rosh HaShana | Yom Teruah
I am sitting in my study. This morning during devotions, I was reflecting on Rosh Hoshana. Once again, this year is not the normal Rosh Hoshana where were we go to services, sing liturgy and hear the sound of the shofar. …
The Bible Will Keep us from Decline in Theological Liberalism
When I was a young leader in Chicago at Adat HaTikvah, we rented from a Presbyterian Church. I was at that time an ordained Presbyterian minister with hopes of influencing the Church to return to a more Evangelical orientation. The …
The Call to Paid Congregational Leadership
When I was sixteen years old, I remember a camp speaker who testified of his own calling that the words of the Paul the apostle, whom we call Rav. Shaul, applied to him, “Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel.”
Afghanistan, Nation Building and Strategic Leadership
Watching the debacle in Afghanistan has been very depressing to say the least. As former British P. M. Tony Blair recently said, this was incredibly stupid decision. He used the term imbecilic. When Donald Trump came up with the idea of withdrawal, I was strongly against his position and spoke against it. When Joe Biden carried out the withdrawal, it was so poorly done that it left most of the world astonished.
What if Luke 4:18 was really the priority of the church?
Imagine the Gospel story if it read like this. Yeshua called his 12 disciples and brought them to a special retreat in Galilee. The trauma of Roman occupation and hard dealings with zealot terrorists was such that these disciples …
The Great Loss of the Young Adult Generation to the Body of the Messiah
How is it possible that statistics say that the younger generation has been lost in droves to the Body of the Messiah? I don’t think the answers are difficult to find. The basic answer is that this generation in …
The Evidential Power of Beauty
A few years back, our friend Mike Bickle recommended a book that had greatly increased his understanding of the beauty of the LORD and beauty itself. It was by the Catholic Theologian Thomas Dubay. Patty, my wife, first read this …
Discipleship and Community
Before Messianic Judaism in our lives from about 1970-1971, Patty and I were on a quest to ask, “What really is the nature of the Church?” This question came in a context where secular writers were ringing alarm bells on …
Come Holy Spirit
One of my privileges was to meet and spend time with John Wimber, the founder of the Vineyard network. He actually had a word from God to reach out to me from reading a brochure on a conference I was …