John 15:17 These things I command you, so that you may love one another. What we are reading here in John 15, is a continuation of the dialogue that began in John 13, in the upper room at the last supper. Yeshua is speaking the truth urgently, because He is well aware that time is…
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In John 13, we find Yeshua celebrating His last supper with His disciples. Yeshua knew the urgency of preparing His disciples for the enormous changes that were about to come upon them. None of them had any idea of what was to follow. His words and the events of that night are recorded in the…
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Last month, with the first part of this articles I began discussing our calling according to the Torah and New Covenant Scriptures to love YHVH with all our heart, soul, and strength (Deut. 6:5; Luke 10:27) and to love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:31). From this foundation as a biblical definition of love and…
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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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