Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. What’s this? The meek shall “shout out with delight (Ashre)?” Doesn’t sound like meekness to me. The Greek word is transliterated Praus, meaning “mild or gentle.” The Hebrew word chosen by Delitzsch is HaAnavim, meaning “the humble.” The transliteration looks like the Hebrew…
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In the first part of this article, we focused on Yeshua as the Shepherd, and the relationship the sheep must have with the Good Shepherd as we are joined with Him as the Bridegroom. It is from this place that we discover that Yeshua is also our Great Intercessor, and we as the Body are…
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At eight years old, my family and I relocated from Detroit, Michigan, to sunny Jacksonville, Florida. Sounds like a dream come true, right? Well, not really. While moving away from the ice and snow would be most people’s best-case scenario, for me, it meant leaving grandparents, uncles, aunts, and all of our family. No, for…
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Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Again, I want to emphasize that all of the beatitudes are intended to produce change from within a person. Too many of us are being affected by the world around us. We should be changing from within to affect the outside world. This…
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FRESH PURSUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Suddenly! Suddenly, the atmosphere of the room changed. A divine energy infiltrated the quiet, causing skin to tingle, hair to stand erect, and the surprising sound of wind to whip through the room. The description of “tongues of fire” alighting upon the heads of the waiting disciples speaks to…
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Before we had Messianic Judaism in our lives, Patti and I — from about 1970-1971 — were on a quest asking, “What really is the nature of the Church?” This question came in the midst of a context where secular writers were ringing alarm bells left and right on the social trends within America. There…
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I’ve been wanting to write this testimony to you since last Friday. It’s personal, but I want to share it with you. It’s a story of answered prayer and how God used the first Messianic Rabbi I ever met, David Chansky, to win me to Himself. Today, David is hospitalized following a stroke a few…
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There are many tedious and mundane activities of life that never end — laundry, dishes, commuting to and from work, cleaning up after the pets. You get the idea. Drudgery. Drudgery is defined in Merriam-Webster as dull, irksome, and fatiguing work: uninspiring labor. It is the grind and travail of life. These activities are necessary…
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The moment I saw her I was in love with her … She was standing at my kitchen counter cutting up vegetables. Our rock band lived in a big house together. Yes, I was the drummer; and it was 1968. Though I had no reason to expect that something was there, mutual friends had described…
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Matthew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. In Franz Delitzsch’s Hebrew translation of the Gospels (a reference book I use often) he has a margin note on Matthew 5:4 with a reference to (specifically verse 2, but I offer more for context.) Isaiah 61:(1 The Ruach Adonai Elohim is on…
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