Some of my followers know that from the age of 19-22 ½ for 3 ½ years, I want through a very difficult time of skepticism. I sometimes called myself an agnostic, but was an agnostic looking for a positive faith, …
Barna and Discipleship
Some of my readers are familiar with the Barna Group founded by George Barna and the important work they do by surveys that tell us where the Church and its members are. One of those areas of the survey is …
The Power of the Gospel and the LGBTQ People
Many Christians and Messianic Jews find themselves in a political battle with LGBTQ people. They do not want to be forced to endorse the lifestyles or be accused of hate speech or be so accused by reading the Bible on …
On Passing the Trump Test in How We Treat Fellow Believers in Yeshua (Jesus)
In Mike Brown’s book on Will Evangelicals Pass the Trump Test, he argues that one key to that test is how we treat those who will vote for and against Trump (if they expose themselves and engage in debate). If …
The Israel Political Crisis Never Ends
Israel has two moderately conservative newspapers that for many years were quite positive to Prime Minister Netanyahu. That has changed. Why? There are several reasons. and the issues they write about now take us to another crisis. First, the editors …
A Cry for Deeper Discipleship/ Growing to Maturity
Yeshua commanded the disciples to go and make disciples of all the nations, immersing them and teaching them to observe all that He commanded them. The goal of discipleship is to “be conformed to the image of His Son,” (Romans …
Approaching the Victims and the Beatitudes
Recently a famous black sports reporter, Jason Whitlock, expressed his alarm at the tenor of Black Lives Matter protests, including his disagreement on some of the false assumptions (not all the assertions are wrong) and the tenor of the Democratic …
The Ultimate Clash of World Views
In one of my recent posts, I distinguished and sought to define the differences between the liberal-left of center Democrat, the leftist Democrat, and the radical far-leftist. The radical left is based on an integrated world view to a much …
Rising Anti-Semitism
Decades ago Derek Prince, the great Bible teacher, and leader told of his conversation with a friend after Israel became a nation. The friend states that the issue of Antisemitism was a sociological issue, that Jews were persecuted in the …
Complexity of Political Terms and Left and Right
THE GREAT COMPLEXITY OF POLITICAL TERMS LEFT AND RIGHT, AND EXTREME LEFT AND RIGHT, AND RADICAL LEFT AND RIGHT, AND MODERATE LEFT AND RIGHT makes our discussion of issues difficult. We use these terms to show that there is a …