We all know there's a dearth of in-depth, yet accessible scholarship in the messianic evangelical world these days. It seems like most of our publications go to one extreme or the other. Either they're dumbed down to a sixth-grade level (no offense to you sixth graders out there) or they're...
The Middle East peace process is stalled again and no one is surprised. It's virtually impossible for me to say anything else beyond that without repeating myself. So this time, I'm going to let someone else say it: Dennis Prager: the Middle East Problem Thanks, Mr. Prager. I couldn't have...
From time to time, people ask why we often use Hebrew terms rather than their more traditional English counterparts. Here are some examples of what they're talking about. We say things like ... Yeshua rather than Jesus Messiah rather than Christ Kehila rather than church Covenant (as in "New Covenant")...
We have to be careful when we talk about issues like the one I'm about to bring up because sometimes it can play into the hands of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel forces. Whenever we talk about how messianic believers in Israel are sometimes targeted for persecution, and sometimes even attacked violently...
Wow, talk about a revelation! Arab News reported in its October 23 (2010) edition that a Vatican synod on the Middle East declared that “Israel cannot use the biblical concept of a 'promised land' or a 'chosen people' to justify new settlements in Jerusalem or territorial claims.” How could I...
Conclusion When we look at the panorama of Bible history, both past and future, we find that miracles happen in clusters—and they’re not arbitrary. They have a purpose. For instance, one cluster of miracles took place during Moses' ministry, another during the overlapping ministries of Elijah and Elisha, a third...
Please Note: Some of the hyperlinks below will take you to YouTube or other secular sites where you may see profanity or other objectionable content. We recommend that children not be allowed to click on these links without adult supervision. Regarding their view of supernatural gifts, theologians generally fall into...
Most of the NT references to the gift of foreign languages ("tongues") are found in 1 Corinthians 12, 13, & 14. The congregation at Corinth (in ancient Greece) was the most dysfunctional of all the NT congregations. Roughly 85% of the content of 1st Corinthians is corrective in nature; that …
Now we come to our analysis of the tongues phenomenon. Due to time and space limitations, this will be a condensed study. 1. There are two types of speaking in tongues—glossolalia and xenoglossia. The term glossolalia (from two Greek words meaning "tongue" and "speak") refers to the phenomenon of ecstatic...
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National Geographic is a well-oiled, money-making machine. And an exceptionally profitable one, at that. NatGeo markets everything from books and magazines to DVDs and even genetic testing. They're especially known for their award-winning photography and documentaries. The wildlife documentaries, especially, are pretty cool. Now they even have their own television...
I'm not going to say "I told you so" because I don't like it when people say it to me. But I did. In my September 4 blog entry ("Middle East Peace Talks ... Again"), I declared (with my characteristic sense of undying optimism), "The current talks are ... doomed...
Almost every week, we receive a prophetic "warning" of one kind or another from someone who claims to have had "a word from God." Sometimes these warnings are about the Rapture. Other times they're about imminent natural disasters, political happenings, or other prophetically significant events that these folks have allegedly...
We're updating and republishing my booklet Israel, God's Timepiece. Our plan is to roll out the new edition at our prophecy conference in Branson, MO, next year (www.godisraelandyou.com). I originally wrote IGT in the late 1980s. Dr. Halff (the founder of our ministry who went to Heaven in November of...
This past weekend, we heard from a woman in Oklahoma City who says she's demon possessed and has been shunned by her family and friends. The message she left sounded like a desperate cry for help. Our pastoral staff has already set the wheels in motion to get this poor …
I feel your pain! That was my first thought when I ran across the Recovering Religionists website this past weekend while doing some research online. Their home page announces: We are Recovering Religionists™, people who have given religion our best shot but just can’t bring ourselves to believe in virgin...
Over the weekend, Rob Styler, our director of missions, sent me this link to "The New America" blog site: click here What's particularly interesting about that blog entry is that it was written by Zach Duke, who went on our August 2010 "Live the Land" student tour to Israel. There...
See? I knew that would get your attention. Jacob Staub, a self-styled gay Reconstructionist rabbi, has published an essay on the Zeek website with this title: "Worship for Agnostics: Building a Personal Relationship with a Non-personal God." Reading the rabbi's story reminded me in some ways of similar testimonies on...
An attorney friend here in San Antonio just sent me a copy of a lawsuit being brought against the IRS by a pro-Israel organization called Z Street. You'll find the text of the lawsuit here. What's interesting about this is that Z Street is alleging that the Obama Administration has...
Most of us remember where we were, and maybe even what we were doing, when historically significant events took place. For instance, I remember where I was when I heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. I was 11 years old and my family was in Pasadena, Texas, at the...
