A Dream Come True
As I write, a dream I held in my heart for over fifteen years is soon to be fully realized. My dream… to write and publish a book which would help believers and church leaders know how to effectively deal with the Hebrew Roots Movement. You might be thinking that...
An Amazing Prophecy: Daniel’s Seventy Weeks (Part 4)
This post will conclude our study of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks. There is one week not yet discussed. It is our understanding of this final week which will bring an appreciation for the title of this series: An Amazing Prophecy, and far more important, an appreciation...
An Amazing Prophecy: Daniel’s Seventy Weeks (Part 3)
Today’s writing announces the greatest significance of Daniel’s Seventy Weeks Prophecy. We will focus primarily on Messiah’s appearance after the sixty-nine weeks (483 years). This is the most amazing aspect of this prophecy in that it predicted the exact time of...
An Amazing Prophecy: Daniel’s Seventy Weeks (Part 2)
In my last blog, I introduced this amazing prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27. God sent the angel Gabriel to Daniel to tell him the exact number of years in which God would conclude his plans with Israel and the city of Jerusalem. In the last blog, we examined the...
An Amazing Prophecy: Daniel’s Seventy Weeks (Part 1)
Years ago, while living in Miami Beach, Florida myself, along with two other Jewish men (one of them my brother), shared the Gospel with some ultra-Orthodox rabbis. As I eavesdropped on the conversation my brother struck up with one of the rabbis, the words I...
Is It Safe?
Recently, I had major dental work done. Most people dread going to the dentist and I am among them. It didn’t help that when I went (twice in a short span). I kept replaying in my mind a scene from a movie starring Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, Laurence Olivier...
Word and Power Church
“But Jesus answered them, ‘You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God…’This is part of our Lord’s answer to Sadducees who tried to trap him in something he said during Passion Week. They were the political power in Jesus’ day who...
Healing and Beyond: What I’d like to say to two groups
In this blog, I would like to clearly address two groups: those who hold to a Cessationist view regarding the spiritual gifts, specifically the gifts of healing; and those who believe and regularly practice the gifts of healing. From the outset, let me say...
The Three Most Powerful Words Ever Uttered
“When Jesus had received the sour wine,he said, “It is finished,” and he bowedhis head and gave up his spirit.” ...
Telling the WHOLE Truth
A few days ago, I heard a friend relate a conversation he had with a relative who claims to be a Christian yet, presently lives an immoral lifestyle. When my friend tried to reprove her, her response was typical of many in a post-modern world: She turned on my...
Gospel-Based Discipleship
Recently a dear friend, a man I have spent considerable time over the years thanked me for helping him to be a better husband and father. What is significant about that is I cannot ever remember having counseled he and his wife. Nor have I ever spoken to him about...
A Lasting Legacy
Have you had a spiritual mentor who God used to strengthen, define, or refine God’s call? A couple of weeks ago, I lost a friend who had a great impact on my life and not mine only, but thousands of others as well. His name was George Bogle, and he was well known...