The War on the Cross

10 months ago
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The Crusaders distorted the redemption message of the cross with militancy and antisemitism. Contemporary evangelicals distort the saving proclamation of…

Andy Stanley’s Scapegoating of the Jewish Scriptures

2 years ago

Conservative news pundits are not all committed Christians who heed the teachings of New Testament living. As a result, listeners…

Is Our World a Safe Place Anymore? (Genesis 11:1-9)

3 years ago

Photo by Marcus P. on Unsplash Residents of Afghanistan are fleeing their war-torn country to escape a repressive Taliban rule. A recent earthquake…

Leaving A Legacy Amidst a Global Disaster

4 years ago

Photo by peter-f-wolf Unsplash.com My parents both passed away within the last decade. They are buried in a Jewish cemetery…

Noah Confronts a Worldwide Catastrophe Part 2

4 years ago

jeff.jacobs1990 Summers in the East Coast were often a treat for me as a young boy. I treasured spending those…

Noah Confronts a Worldwide Catastrophe Part 1

4 years ago

Our world is facing an unprecedented crisis with the Coronavirus outbreak. Currently, close to 1,911,407 people have been confirmed to…

Have You Been Scammed by Your Own Heart?

8 years ago

Face it, we live in a world of scammers. They are everywhere. On our cellphones with robo calls. In our…

Planning for the Future With or Without God

8 years ago

Christians who merely wait for instructions from God’s control tower, but fail to follow Solomon’s advice to think about our…

Ordering Off God’s Menu of Life’s Choices

8 years ago

From Proverbs 15:16-17 we are given a menu with four choices on how to live out our lives. Some will…

The Hunt for the White Whale of Anger

8 years ago

Wisdom provides the answer to quiet down an angry battle. However, when we'd rather hunt down the elusive whale of…

Deflate the Hot Air Balloon of Angry Words

8 years ago

In Proverbs 15:1 Solomon gives us an “out of the box” way of reacting to a potentially heated exchanges and…

Make America Good Again

8 years ago

During this presidential election cycle, it is important we understand from Proverbs 14:34 what really makes our country tick .…

How to Win Friends and Not Lose Self-Respect

8 years ago

Solomon questions whether we avoid friends going through financial hardships since they may expect us to rush to their aid.…

Need a foolproof map to guide your life?

8 years ago

When we look under the hood of a wise person to check his decision making process, we find godly character…

Do You Know When To Keep Your Lips Zipped?

8 years ago

Speech management is a theme threaded throughout the Book of Proverbs. Solomon continually warns his listeners one area where we…

Do You Think Before You Act or Just Act?

8 years ago

In Proverbs 13:16 Solomon contrasts the wisdom of taking time to think before one takes action with the foolishness of…

Proverbs for Living Skillfully

8 years ago

Today we place more value on our frantic efforts to solve an issue than on the wisdom involved in "knowing…

Do We Need to Repent To Be Forgiven?

9 years ago

What disappointed me most when I asked followers of Yeshua about their beliefs concerning forgiving others, it was rare they…

The Disappearing Palestine Map

10 years ago

In the booklet Zionism Unsettled published formerly available in the store on the PCUSA website, we find a map of…

Not All Israel Is Israel Part 3

10 years ago

Most followers of Jesus are not even aware of the various Christian theologies regarding the Jewish nation. Yet when uninformed…

Not All Israel Is Israel Part 1

11 years ago

I find that the majority of Christians are very confused when it comes to God's plan for Israel and many…

How to Treat a Rebellious Israel | Christianity Today

12 years ago

Today, Israel as a nation is a covenant-breaking people—they are rejecting their Messiah, Jesus. In this condition of unbelief and…

The True Seed of Abraham: Jesus or Israel?

12 years ago

From Galatians 3:16-17 we are to conclude, according to replacement theologians, that the Abrahamic promises were not spoken to the…

Just Published! Jesus or Yeshua: Exploring the Jewish Roots of Christianity

12 years ago

I did not fit. Church did not feel Jewish. The terminology caused me to cringe, asking, “What have I gotten…

The Truth about the Kairos Palestine Document

12 years ago

In order to grasp the impact of Kairos Palestine Document, I need to provide some background regarding the Presbyterian Church…

Arab Christians Rewrite the New Testament on 60 Minutes

12 years ago

Sadly, many statements by Arab Christians in the 60 Minutes piece remained unchallenged especially when it came to the Jewish…

60 Minutes’ Discrepancies about Christians of the Holy Land

12 years ago

In my opinion Bob Simon and his producer Harry Radliffe owe Israel and the Palestinian Christians in the West Bank…

The True Theology Taught at Christ at the Checkpoint 2012

12 years ago

Listening to the messages spoken at the Christ at the Checkpoint  March 2012 Conference one is quickly confronted with the  contradictory…

Who is the Seed of Abraham? CATC2012 Part Two

12 years ago

For over forty years I have been faced with the doctrine of replacement theology in many forms. Mostrecently, replacement theology…

Who is the Seed of Abraham? CATC 2012 Part 1

12 years ago

At the recent Christ at the Checkpoint conference in Bethlehem, an array of pro-Palestinian Christian speakers shared their thoughts on…

Burying the Jesus Family Tomb Controversy

12 years ago

Today's blog is a reposting of an article I wrote in 2008 regarding the alleged ossuary of Jesus as purported…

Love Wins Loses Out

12 years ago

In the last installment of my examination of Rob Bell's Love Wins, the focus was on the character of God.  Bell…