Topical Teachings

Topical Teachings

• Paul and The Two Diasporas

  Paul and The Two Diasporas There are reasons that things happen as they do, whether in the Bible or in our everyday modern lives. When we can discover the reasons that some of our greatest Bible characters made the choices they did, it removes them from the world of myth and legend and places them […]

• The Real Meaning of Kosher

  The Real Meaning Of Kosher For Believers of all ilks and labels, next to Sabbath, probably the dietary laws are the most controversial and puzzling aspects of the Law of Moses and of Judaism in general. I have probably had more questions than any other about kosher eating and whether that is really still intended […]

• Biblical Prophets: The Office and The Purpose

  BIBLICAL PROPHETS The Office and The Purpose Over the past year or more we have been studying the Minor Prophets (and we’ll continue to do so). But, today I want to talk with you about Prophets and the biblical office of Prophet in general. I have noticed that the term and understanding of its meaning […]

• Paul: The Law and The Jewish People

  Paul, The Law and The Jewish People Matthew chapter 5 begins this way: CJB Matt. 5:1-16 Seeing the crowds, Yeshua walked up the hill. After he sat down, his talmidim came to him, 2 and he began to speak. This is what he taught them: 3 "How blessed are the poor in spirit! for the […]

• 12 Key Prophecies About Israel

  12 Key Prophecies About Israel Sometimes the most important matters of our times don’t appear in news headlines, or are they the subjects of Sunday TV talk shows. They are the smaller, less popularly noticed things that when linked together identify a troubling trend or portend a gathering storm that is about to break, and […]

• Returning to an Objective Morality – Part 1

  Returning To An Objective Morality Part 1 Over 30 years ago, in 1992, the renowned syndicated columnist Cal Thomas wrote these opening words to his article entitled “Too many Americans adrift without a moral compass”: On ABC’s “Good Morning America” one-day last week, there was a discussion on “family values”. One guest said he thought […]

• Returning to an Objective Morality – Part 2

  Returning To An Objective Morality Part 2 Welcome back to Returning to an Objective Morality. This is the second part of this 2-part series. After Germany lost WWII, the German Nazi leaders were put on trial at Nuremberg. Recently I visited that very courtroom; it was quite moving. The trial was unprecedented, and so a […]

• Will There Be a Palestinian State?

  Will There Be A Palestinian State? There is much talk going on in the world at the present about the creation of a Palestinian State next to Israel in the area of the eastern Mediterranean. Whereas it was looked on as nigh improbable a mere thirty years ago or so that such a “State” could […]

• The Development of Halakhah and Its Role in The New Testament

  The Development of Halakhah and its Role in the New Testament Before anyone studies the New Testament, some serious preparation needs to be undertaken or many of its statement and terms will be misunderstood and continue to the ongoing misperceptions and error filled Church doctrines that are spoken from the pulpit. So, my goal today […]

• Say Goodbye to Converting

  Say Good-bye To Converting Perhaps an alternative title for this lesson that would help to explain what it is about would be: “salvation yes, conversion no”. The beginning point for today’s lesson is to establish something very basic: words have meaning. Words can create subconscious mental pictures that lead to assumptions and conclusions that we […]

• The 7 Biblical Feasts and What They Mean for Followers of Yeshua – Part 1

  The 7 Biblical Feasts and What They Mean For Followers Of Yeshua: Part 1 I suspect that I’m talking to many people who, like myself, had NOT spent a lifetime celebrating the 7 biblical feasts as called for in the Holy Scriptures as our Jewish friends have, and so you are somewhat fuzzy about what […]

• The 7 Biblical Feasts and What They Mean for Followers of Yeshua – Part 2

  The 7 Biblical Feasts and What They Mean For Followers Of Yeshua: Part 2 Last week we followed a series of God’s Appointed Times called the 7 Biblical Feasts as it is developed in Leviticus and later refined in Deuteronomy. What we saw was that there were several purposes and manifestations of those 7 Feasts. […]

• Christians and The Law

  Christians and The Law Does the Law of Moses still matter? Should it have any effect on the life of a Christian? Outside of salvation itself, there is no more important question to answer. This is not a matter for theologians to debate; this is at the very heart of what it means to be […]

• The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel – Part 1

  The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel Part 1 The events of the past few years, culminating with the devastating October 7, 2023 raid and hostage taking by Gaza upon Israel, Israel’s subsequent furious retaliation, and then Iran shocking the globe by initiating a game-changing missile and drone attack upon Israel that came from within Iranian […]

• The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel – Part 2

  The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel Part 2 We covered a great deal of ground in our previous lesson of The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel, part 1. So, to get our bearings, let’s re-read a few verses from Genesis chapter 48. Re-read Genesis 48:1 – 6 and 17 – 19 We are well into […]

• The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel – Part 3

  The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel Part 3 Ten Lost Tribes of Isreal (3). Tom Bradford recommends this documentary movie “Quest For The Lost Tribes” by Simcha Jacobovici. The mystery of the lost tribes of Israel reverberates through three millennia of human experience. Of the twelve tribes mentioned in the Bible, only those of Judah […]

• The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel – Part 4

  The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel Part 4 That was quite a video, wasn’t it? Very eye-opening. If you didn’t see it I suggest that you do before proceeding with this part 4 of our 10 Lost Tribes of Israel series. And by the way, it is called “Quest for the Lost Tribes” and it […]

• The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel – Part 5

  The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel Part 5 We ended our last session on the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel by talking about the inherent dual nature of things in our Universe. Even our Messiah has a dual nature as the Suffering Servant and the Warrior King; and His dual nature also was displayed in […]