A JEWISH ARGUMENT FOR WHEN JESUS WAS BORN

In at least recent years, Messianic Jews (who also accept Yeshua—Jesus—as their Messiah) have proposed that He was not born during Christmastime, but rather earlier in the year. While their “argument” is not entirely persuasive, it is nonetheless interesting. The main description of Jesus’ birth is found, of course, early in Luke’s Gospel. It is […]

WHO WAS AND IS JESUS CHRIST

After reading British historian Michael Grant’s (still available) strong yet concise introductory 1977 treatise on Jesus, it oddly occurred to me that I have not written anything at length about Him. Grant quite rightly describes Jesus as the most influential person who ever lived, so perhaps every Christian (and Messianic Jew) should at least attempt […]

CHRISTIANITY HAS GOTTEN STUCK

One of my interests has become to look at the state of our Christian faith, not merely that of the Church, but, more broadly, its state in the larger context of Western society. Most keenly, how is Christianity working, both as personal faith as well as in our culture at large. We are at a […]

LISTEN TO ALL THAT IS LORDLY TELLABLE

What you would call My hands fashioned everything you see & taste that stays unconjured by your human doings, despite all of your techno-progress you only hear because I allow silence & the music it ravishes to tickle your ear-drums for the overwhelming surety that only I ever-lastingly matter. You keep speculating that there was […]