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Finding What You Look For
Oh, give me the kisses of your mouth for your love is more delightful than wine. Song of Songs 1:2 JPS Kisses – It’s almost commonplace among critical scholars to point out the misuse of the text when the Song of Songs is treated as a theological description of Christ and the Bride-Church. Various passages…
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Day of Atonement – Roi Ziv
This study was written by Roi Ziv, an Israeli Messianic follower who lives in the Galilee. We have been privileged to by with Roi and his sister on the last two trips to Israel. I recorded his last talk with the group in October and it will soon be available on the web site. Here’s…
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Why Don’t We See Sin For What It Is
We are generally (perhaps deliberately) unaware of the giant chasm created by the smallest of sins and the demands of God because the Church has taught us that we are under grace and therefore the tiny sins don’t really matter. They are simply errors in judgment. If my greatest sins can be easily forgiven by…
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Mass Hallucination
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but…
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A Religion of Piece(s)
On October 9, 2015, the Muslim cleric Muhammad Salah “Abu Rajab” preached to the congregation of the Al-Abrar Mosque in Rafah in Gaza. In his “sermon,” he expressly avowed that he and his brothers of the West Bank are terrorists intent on killing every Jew on the planet and continuing their killing campaign to America….
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The Art of Distinguishing
“Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.” Matthew 13:30 NASB Allow both – The point of the parable is that…
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Richard Nisbett – The Geography of Thought
Richard Nisbett The Geography of Thought, How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . .and Why, (Free Press, 2003). All citations in quotations. My comments and explanatory notes added. “Westerns have a strong interest in categorization, which helps them to know what rules to apply to the objects in question, and formal logic plays…
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Dismissed!
Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, and revive me in Your ways. Psalm 119:37 NASB Looking at vanity – The NIV renders the verse, “Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.” A footnote explains that two manuscripts of the Masoretic text and the Dead Sea scrolls…
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EMERGENCY!
I have just learned that one of the women who was on the Israel tour is in the hospital in Israel. Valerie Cole and Scott stayed after the tour for a few extra days. Valerie didn’t feel well and after two days ended up in the emergency room with a burst appendix. Emergency surgery and…
