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Articles by Art Katz available online and in PDF download format.
Abraham’s Ascent – The Necessity of Every Believer
In Oswald Chamber’s devotional My Utmost for His Highest for April 26, entitled “The Supreme Climb,” we read:
The great point of Abraham’s faith in God was that he was prepared to do anything for God. He was there to obey God, no matter to what belief he went contrary.
Strange that one’s beliefs about God can [...]
A Further Guide for the Perplexed
A Guide for the thoughtful over the perplexity of Jesus from a believing Jewish point of view
“Shema Yisrael Adonoi Elohenu Adonoi Echod…”
“Hear O Israel, the Lord your God is One”
However faint the spiritual condition of Jewish people, the cry of the Shema is familiar to all. How often have we taken refuge in it, and [...]
A Man in Whom the Spirit of God is
I cannot imagine a more appropriate night for this message. What I have visibly seen of your church life is probably as grand of a religion as can be experienced in our world. I am not sure that it can reach a greater pitch or peak than what has taken place tonight-the glory of the [...]
A Message for the Earnest Seeker
In much the same way as the Shekinah glory lights the holiest place of all, so also are we ‘lighted’ to the degree that first the natural (open daylight at the brazen altar), [...]
A Message for the Nations
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it (Psalms 24:1). How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord (Psalms 144:15).”
It is remarkable, when one reflects upon it, how little deference or consideration is given to God by the nations as nations. Somehow their existence [...]
A Message on Restoration and Return
(With quotations from Thomas M. Raitt’s A Theology of Exile, Fortress Press, 1977)
The prophecies of Zephaniah, as is true with all the prophets of Israel, speak not only to the present condition and immediate future of the nation, but also its eschatological future and end. So one is warned of the Babylonian judgment then pressing [...]
An Answer to Ethnic Identity
A word particularly for the black community (adapted from a letter written to a sister)
Our identity in God is an enormously significant subject. I understand (in measure) the terrible depletion of the Black Man in America and the great need for a self-esteem, dignity and identity in the very area in which he has been [...]
An Apostolic Manifesto
In this late hour, the church needs to consider something that would constitute a plumb line from heaven, something to which we should align ourselves. I believe there is an apostolic distinctive that identifies the true church, and makes of it what has always been its characteristic from the beginning.
An Expression of Loving Concern
A message given by Art Katz to a closely-knit group of community/fellowships known as “The Move” (The Move of the Spirit) in 1988, Lubbock, Texas. It is a message given in the context of a movement that celebrates the Holy Spirit while, at the same time, essentially ignores some of the classic doctrines of the [...]
An Insight into the Mystery of Christ
Paul speaks of a mystery in Ephesians 3:6:
[T]o be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to [...]
Anti Semitism: A Little Considered Root
From time to time one reads of how Jewish commentators are chafed by the world’s holding of Israel to a higher standard or account. Their irritation evidently stems from a secular and rational mentality that does not regard Israel as in any way exceptional with regard to other nations, and therefore not deserving of any [...]
A Plea for the Serious Consideration of God
A message, especially but not exclusively, for our Jewish kinsmen as we approach the end of the millennium
Be still and know that I am God…(Psalm 46:10)
There is a connection between the strange providences of God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in the light [...]
Apocalyptic Eschatology
I have an outline of certain last days’ events, but there is no way that I can adhere to a linear statement or discussion. You will find that I will keep coming back to certain themes in the interweaving of strands that make up the whole.
These are the last days, and I have a view [...]
Apostolic Conversion
Apostolic Conversion
Pretext or Reality?
This is the verbatim transcript of a message given in 1993 to an American congregation of a spiritually impressive kind. That is to say, that it had all the appearances of a committed body, serious in the Lord, and whose lively worship seemed to testify of its abounding health. Nevertheless, after two [...]
A Priesthood Made Ready for the Future
The Melchizedek Priesthood
An edited transcript of message # S04-29.
We have previously looked at one or two aspects of the Levitical function of the Aaronic priesthood, but I want to [...]
The Arab and the Jew
A prophetic thought on the ancient Jewish-Muslim enmity
The present crisis in Israel must be seen in the context of biblical understanding. It is the drama of a Jacob people called to be the Isra-el of God so as to bless all the families of the earth. The blessing is the impartation of, and witness to, [...]
Ask for the Ancient Paths
Thus says the Lord: “Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” But they said, “We will not walk in it.” (Jeremiah 6:16).
The pleading, haunting cry of the prophet is timeless. It is as valid now [...]
At the Age of Twelve
At the age of twelve, Jesus is giving us a lesson in the making of a son, and the episode reveals an insight into the definitive principles of sonship that are applicable for sons (and daughters) of God in every generation.
And the Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace [...]