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Dear friends, Shalom in His grace. I am leaving for Israel on January 9 and will be with our staff for five days. I am eagerly looking forward to being in the land to encourage and pray with our wonderful staff. Lately they have been in bomb shelters every night…
Someone who could touch both man and God is the only possible bridge for the gap between humanity and our Creator that was created by sin. Yeshua claims that He is that bridge: “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God…
Dear friend, Happy Hanukkah from your friends at Chosen People Ministries! The Feast of Dedication is when the Jewish people celebrate our deliverance from possible extinction. This was the goal of the evil Syrian Greek leader, Antiochus Epiphanes, in mid-second century BCE. He tried to destroy the Jewish people and…
Abraham is called the father of our faith. This becomes even more significant when we consider that Abraham’s father was an idolator, someone who worshipped other gods (Joshua 24:2). Our Jewish sages take it one step further and describe Terah as an idol maker. Abram is called out of a…
Happy fourth night of Hanukkah! The Apostle Paul went to great lengths to explain that although God was adding Gentiles to His kingdom in great numbers, He was not finished with Israel and the Jewish people. Paul goes so far as to say that when Messiah returns, all of the…
Israel has always been in a strategic location to have a worldwide impact. In ancient times, there were two major trade routes that passed through Israel. It was no mistake when God took Israel, gave them His Word, and placed them “at the center of the nations” (Ezekiel 5:5). As…
One of the sweetest experiences of Hanukkah is lighting the menorah. We light one candle the first night, and add another candle every night until the menorah is filled with nine lit candles. If you were to ask, “Why eight days?” you would likely get some variation of a story…
Happy last night of Hanukkah! The Jewish people have a word that we recite at Passover, dayenu, that means, essentially, “It would have been enough.” If God had only done this for us, it would have been enough, but He went further. It would have been enough if God had…
There is so much to be excited about when a baby is born. There is new hope for the future, and a name to be selected. Will the child be named after a family member? A friend? Will the name be trendy? Traditional? Will the child like the name? In…
A little more than 2,000 years ago, a baby boy was born. His mother wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger. Suddenly, an angel appeared to some shepherds nearby, accompanied by a celestial choir praising God with the words, “Glory to God in the highest, and…
One of the great joys in my ministry over the years has been leading tours to Israel. One of the places I go is called the Shepherds’ Field. About a mile east of Bethlehem, it is the location where the shepherds would have witnessed the angels announcing the birth of…
Paul was a prisoner continually chained to a Roman guard when he wrote his epistle to the believing community in Ephesus, around ad 60–62. The recipients of his letter were followers of Jesus in the Roman province of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). While this letter is commonly called “The Epistle…