Articles
Articles by Art Katz available online and in PDF download format.
The Church’s Mandate to their Nation
An edited version of a transcribed message by Art Katz, given to a Messianic congregation in Tel Aviv, Israel in March 2002.
The church in every nation has an obligation to represent something of God to the nation itself. Part of our call is to bring a particular perspective to the nation’s consciousness, which for the [...]
The Church’s Identification with Israel
I want to quote some Jewish sources to give a sense of the heightened awareness in the Jewish community of imponderables, of things happening now that are almost beyond their grasp, triggered by this unexpected outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon (2006). I am reading from a Jewish publication called The Forward. One of the principal [...]
Contemporary Worship: The Malady of the Church and the Issue of Israel
One cannot help but notice an increasing and sweaty insistence on parts of the Church to affect the sense of God’s Presence. However desirable that [...]
The Context of Humility in the Cosmic Purposes of God
In his book entitled, Humility, Andrew Murray calls humility “the only root from which the graces can grow.” In other words, there is no growth in grace and no receiving of anything from God without this ultimate and essential requirement. The scripture that supports this is: “He gives grace to the humble, but resists the [...]
The cost of showing mercy
It cost God much to pour out and reveal His mercy, namely, the death of His Son in the most excruciating agony. What will it cost us to show the same? Is mercy still mercy if it comes without cost? Religious politeness we can perform. If mercy does not come at cost to the person [...]
Counsel to a Distressed Wife
From a letter of counsel for a wife in time of distress and estrangement from her spouse.
I suspect that there are circumstances in your past that affect how you perceive things that could exaggerate your fears and heighten your insecurity. That is true for all of us. Over a process of time, the Lord is [...]
Critiquing the Visions of the Last Days
It is only with some reluctance that we are responding to a request (2004) to give an evaluation of two videos we have been given to consider that have to do with an End Time vision of judgment upon America – given by prominent American ministers of the gospel.
The purpose of the vision and its [...]
Cross Evasion: The Subterfuge of our Modern Christianity
God’s actual visitation, the coming of Himself, and the form that it took, and the way that it was culminated in His crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection has got to be the single greatest epochal event in the whole history of the human race.
Crying Wolf
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, is quoted by Eric J. Greenberg in a September 19, 2003 article of the Jewish Week as citing [...]