The Maccabees made a lot of noise between the ministries of Malachi and John the Baptist. The setting of the Hannukah story is well-known to most Jews and Bible scholars thanks to 1 and 2 Maccabees, two books written during the biblical “silent period” and counted...
Ecclesiastes 3:1–8, “A Time for Everything,” is a cherished Bible passage quoted at many memorial services. Our lives contain a mixture of joy, sorrow, pleasure, pain, harmony, struggle, life, and death. Each season in the cycle of life has its appropriate time. We,...
There are several variations of George Santayana’s famous quote. He ob-served, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It was a major theme in his writing, and he also knew that when genuine facts of history are hidden, any lessons we could...
Every day, ministries all over the world are making a difference in the lives of those in need, with Israel being one of the nations that is ripe with opportunities for building the Kingdom of G-d. Now, the need is greater than ever. More than 2.5 million Israelis...
What do fine wines, blue jeans, leather boots, cheese, cast iron skillets, flannel sheets, friendships, and a certain Messianic Jewish synagogue all have in common? They all get better with age! Somewhere along their respective journeys, they accumulated what it takes...
