WHY PROPHECY IS IMPORTANT (SEE GOD’S PLAN UNFOLD) Approximately 30% of the Bible is considered prophecy and this includes both fulfilled and unfulfilled prophecies. This means that prophecy is a substantial part of the biblical text, emphasizing its importance in understanding the overall message of Scripture. At least one-half of all biblical predictions have already…

FROM PALM SUNDAYTO GOOD FRIDAYTO RESURRECTION SUNDAY Palm Sunday: all the Hosannas — was it because of a misunderstood celebration? I believe we can fall into such a misunderstanding. We think “oh good, now I’m “saved” — saved from trials, etc. Yet we are saved from God’s wrath because of Good Friday. Good even when…

One day I overheard a friend advise a young woman locked in prison that “Your past does not define you”. Her words made me recall the day I was sure I had found the definition of who I was. A punching bag, a convenient target, a scapegoat. You have pent-up anger, need to get out…

 So what?!? Gulp—here you’ve shared what you’d been told is all the tried-and-true ways to share the Gospel with your Jewish friend. You’ve memorized or have had a cheat sheet with all the prophecies, and maybe even told them you’ve observed some of their holidays. But what if they come back to you with a…

Abba Father, DAYENU—Your love, redeeming me from a life of destruction and crowning me with Your lovingkindness and tender mercies, would have been sufficient, but You had a special gift for me. Out of nowhere—actually when I was feeling nowhere, in despair with nowhere to turn, came Michael Finesilver. He loved me, Abba, just like…

Rabbinical Judaism teaches this is what should happen when the Messiah comes: Isaiah 2:1-5 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be…