The New Anti-Semitism
Thursday, May 15th, 2008We all know that anti-Semitism is increasing in remarkable leaps and bounds. The Jews call it the new anti-Semitism. What makes it new, ironically, is that there is a reviving of the allusions to Jews requiring Gentile children’s blood in order to mix in with their matzo and other ceremonial things. This is an unbelievable, […]
Widows and Slaves, Employers and Employees
Monday, May 12th, 2008There is a growing awareness on the part of many for apostolic and prophetic foundations. These foundations need to be understood and developed, and the Lord has given us a very precious perspective on that word “apostolic” from an insight on some comments Paul makes on widows and slaves. It seems just a minor note […]
Nathaniel – A Key to Breaking the Power of our Predictable Christianity
Thursday, May 8th, 2008In the gospel of John, there is a strange statement that Jesus makes to a man by the name of Nathaniel. I sense that Nathaniel is typical of a disillusioned man both then and now. Perhaps he could be likened to someone who desires something beyond an inadequate, conventional Judaism or conventional Christianity, with things […]
An Insight into the Mystery of Christ
Monday, May 5th, 2008Paul 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 […]
On Composing Papers
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008As believers, each one of us ought to be compiling papers. We ought to have a growing stack of articles and papers on things that the Lord has made alive to us. There ought to always be something “on the stove.” It is like an artist working on several canvases at once. He is working […]
Godly Critiquing of our Church Life
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008The scriptures encourage us to “examine ourselves.” Critiquing would be a synonym for examining. We need to examine our lives, and events in our lives, in order to get their fullest meaning. If our lives were examined in the biblical sense, we would end up with fewer divorces, more sustained marriages, a richer quality of fellowship, and more […]
Some Pithy Statements
Friday, April 25th, 2008Idolatry is any religious practice that gives mankind a measure of religious and emotional satisfaction, and that alleviates their conscience and requires nothing from them. Religion is the propensity of men to take the holiest things of God in all of their well-meaning intention, and so to transfigure them as to rob them of their […]
Messianic or Hebraic?
Friday, April 25th, 2008A Critique of the Messianic Movement There are large segments of the essentially Gentile church that are a little mystified by the Messianic movement. They do not know quite how to assess it, how it fits in, and how it relates to what they are about. This message is more of an exploratory word, and […]
Is Death the End? – The Reality of Hell
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008The reality of Hell needs to be anguished over, and to be understood as a terrible and eternal calamity. Once your life ends, there is no turning back; there is no second chance; there is no way to make amends when you realize that what you have spurned all your living days in those who […]
Some Comments on the Tragedy of September 11, 2001
Saturday, April 19th, 2008The Shaking of All Things That Can Be Shaken There has been a great fall. More has come down than the great towers of the world’s financial center; it is the world itself that can never again be the same. What security, confidence or trust can mankind be assured when even its impenetrable symbol of […]
The Veil of Self
Thursday, April 17th, 2008I have a subtle theme for today. This will make an ultimate demand of your faith, namely, the faith to believe that the veil that covered the holiest place of all, and which barred every soul from entry except the Aaronic high priest once a year, is now open and available to you. Can you […]
Virtue, Power and Healing
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008The gospel of Mark chapter 5 has intrigued me for the longest time, and something was finally stirred in me that I want to share. It is the episode of the woman with the internal bleeding that no physician was able to heal, but she had a faith to believe that: “If I am touched […]
Psalm 96 – Bringing the Future into the Present
Monday, April 14th, 2008How would you label this psalm? What kind of a psalm is it? Does it celebrate the God of Israel’s past? Is it speaking of the present? Is it an eschatological psalm that speaks of the eternal future? My sensing is that it is definitely the future. Can you picture this psalm being sung in […]
The Context of Humility in the Cosmic Purposes of God
Friday, April 11th, 2008In 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 […]
Psalm 53 and Israel – A Prophetic Reflection
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008A further reflection on the Palestinian crisis. Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they commit abominable acts: there is no one who does good. So does this Psalm of David commence from its first verse with the same kind of thunderclap introduction as Beethoven’s mighty Fifth Symphony! It startles […]
Some Thoughts on the Nature of Sin
Monday, April 7th, 2008As Karl Barth noted, “the very fact that we are sinners incapacitates us to recognizing ourselves as sinners.” We are not in a position to estimate and evaluate our own condition. Therefore, if there is going to be any revelation and understanding of the truth of our condition, both as individuals and as a nation, […]
One Thing You Lack
Monday, April 7th, 2008“A certain ruler” (Luke 18:18), rich, accomplished, noble, Torah observant, full of “great possessions” asked Him, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” That question is undeniably great—not only as the question of what lies beyond death, but for our purposes, the critical enablement for a sustaining, overcoming, last days’ life of discipleship, service […]
The Washing of the Word – from the Episode of Moses Striking the Rock
Sunday, April 6th, 2008A transcription of a spoken message – 2004 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days: the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he […]
The Righteousness of God as revealed in the Baptism of Jesus
Saturday, April 5th, 2008What are the implications for the church? At the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, the heavens were opened and the voice of the Father was heard, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased.” I have always appreciated that episode. It was a significant event at the very commencement of the […]
The Church’s Mandate to their Nation
Saturday, April 5th, 2008An 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, to bring a particular perspective to the nation’s consciousness, which for the lack of a […]
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