A Polite Response to Andrew Strom’s Article
by J. Jacob Prasch
My family are Hebrew-speaking Israeli Jews who believe in Jesus and retain Jewish culture. Our ministry Moriel has published three articles warning about the extreme axis of the Messianic Movement that lifts up Jewishness instead of Jesus-ness and seeks to place non-Jews under Torah and Sabbatarian observance. It is an issue also addressed in my last book.
I am not alone. Moishe Rosen (the founder of Jews For Jesus) and Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum [Continue reading ...]
And what is the prescribed response? Is it to walk down an aisle? Is it to fill out a card, or to lift up a hand? Is it to make an appointment with a preacher, or to decide to be baptized and join the church? While any of those things may be involved, none of them necessarily is. The response of the Good News – the message that Paul preached and other Christians preached throughout the [Continue reading ...]
1. Issues of life are out of. Pr 4:23
2. God
Tries. 1Ch 29:17; Jer 12:3
Knows. Ps 44:21; Jer 20:12
Searched. 1Ch 28:9; Jer 17:10
Understands the thoughts of. 1Ch 28:9; Ps 139:2
Ponders. Pr 21:2; 24:12
Influences. 1Sa 10:26; [Continue reading ...]
God had already given Moses a vision of how He would work out His heart desire to bring salvation to Jews and Gentiles:
“They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god.
They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities.
And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people.
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.” (Deuteronomy 32:21)
It was neither a mistake nor a surprise for Almighty God that most of the people of Israel did not accept the [Continue reading ...]
Many people have a false impression of the purpose of humility. They believe that it is a means by which we gain “approval” by God. That, by their “acts of humility,” they will earn a place in heaven. But this is totally backwards! Until we are saved, we are spiritually dead and unable to do what pleases God! We can’t even begin to have genuine humility until our relationship with God has been restored – until we have been made alive in Christ – [Continue reading ...]
A contrite heart, a broken heart, a humble heart. Whilst these may appear to be different ways of saying the same thing – they do have different meanings, and as such, with sincerity of heart, I sought to understand.
What is a contrite heart?
What does the Bible mean when it says; a broken heart?
What is true humility – in a true Biblical sense?
“The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a [Continue reading ...]
