The Heartache of my Soul

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Us – Have you discovered that you don’t have the right words for prayer?  You want to communicate with God, but when you actually…

Theory or Practice

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Teach – Do you know how to pray?  Do you know the purpose of prayer?  Do you understand the importance of prayer?  Great, you’re…

Shameful Prayer

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Teach us – Do you find it odd that the disciples asked Yeshua to teach them to pray?  We know, of course, that they…

Terrifying Prayer

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Teach us –  “To live without prayer is to live without God, to live without a soul.”[1]  When I first read Heschel’s words some…

One What?

I and the Father are one.  John 10:30  NASB One – Philip Jenkins expresses what most Christians believe when he writes, “In the New Testament, Jesus says quite explicitly that he is identical with God: ‘I and the Father are one,’ he declares.”[1]  It certainly seems so, doesn’t it?  In fact, it is so commonly…

On the Importance of the Talmud

The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Matthew 1:1 NASB Record – “It is obvious that the Torah contains much idiomatic usage, and translating it literally (as do most translations) distorts the meaning of the text.  To a large degree, the ‘Oral Torah’ consists of a tradition as…

The Silver Spoon Syndrome

For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights. Proverbs 3:12  NASB Disciplines – How do we know that God cares for us?  If you listen to some popular theological viewpoints, you might answer, “I know God cares because I have been blessed with health and prosperity.  When you do what God…

Who Is He?

Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.  They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; …