This past week our alarm system sounded the alert that it was not working properly. It was connected to an line phone problem. Shortly after the phones went dead. Patty was able to get the phone repair service to restore …
Our Meeting with Pope Benedict
It was the fall of 1997, and a small group of three Messianic Jews, one Catholic charismatic Priest theologian, a Catholic Archdeacon of Vienna, and one Episcopal Anglican clergyman/rector met with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. He would not long after become …
LGBTQ Controversy in Israel
The Orthodox Jewish Parties in Israel, four of them, now dominate Israel’s government. They have pushed greatly curtailing LGBTQ civil rights. This has led to a strong pushback from the Israeli secular community and the parties that are now not …
Klaus Schwab and the Davos World Forum
The general response from many conservatives is that Klaus Schwab is dangerous and maybe an evil guy, and the World Economic Forum is dangerous too. Schwab is an octogenarian born in 1938 who launched the WEF, the rich and well-connected …
Passion for the Presence and Power of the Holy Spirit
In recent years I have been again challenged by the truth that there is so much more Presence and power (ability) in the Holy Spirit available but not received or walked out. In recent years, we have been challenged by …
The Political Dilemma in Israel
It is very hard not to be very ambivalent about politics in Israel. There is no party that has representation in the Knesset that represents me. My Facebook friends may or may not have an understanding of this. Here is …
Climate Change / Global Warming
The rigorous moderate position of Bjorn Lomborg. I decided to buy Bjorn Lomborg’s recent book “False Alarm” after hearing a few interviews. This scholarly Dane was quite persuasive. I have read material asserting that we are in an existential crisis …
Who Dominates the Media
I was planning to write this post when Bill O’Reilly wrote a commentary that partly covered my concerns. He opined that the reason the Republicans did not do better in the election was that the dominant media magnified the talking …
A call to Messianic Jews in Israel, Essay 24
We have now come to this last short essay. We have covered the basics of Classical Dispensationalism and our difficulties with this theology. Now I want to address Israel. I believe that Classical Dispensational theology is a foreign imposition upon …
Are there Dispensations, Essay 23
Sometimes Dispensationalists ask us if we cannot see that it is obvious that there are dispensations, different periods demarked in Scripture that show God’s working in different periods of time with different requirements and tests for the human race. The …