Category Archives: Jewish History/Culture

Looking ahead

As we thank God for the year behind and trust Him for the year ahead, we also need to participate in its outcome. When I sit here next year – what would I like to see different?How would I like to grow? Far and away, for me, is the desire to grow in my relationship…
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Taking it to the streets

We can learn something from the eastern, or rabbinic, form of teaching. The rabbis, who were masters of the text, God’s Word, led their students through life. The world is their classroom. And everything becomes a teachable moment. As the students “do life” with their rabbi, he teaches along the way. Children naturally connect truth with…
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Manger Fun

The picture you see here is a traditional manger, used today as in ancient times. It is not a wooden fixture like the one you might find in the crèche in your home, but rather cut from stone. Mangers are for holding water, not food like hay. Jesus, the living water, came to be with…
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Emmanuel

It’s incomprehensible. God left heaven. For here. He gave up glory and majesty, omnipotence and omniscience. And subjected Himself to the limitations of a body and an earthly life within time. Yes, He was still fully God. But He emptied Himself for us. Almighty God, King of kings and Lord of lords. And now He…
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