Anyone interested in applying? So what is a professional mourner? In ancient Israel, there were actually women who were paid to lament – to passionately express extreme grief or sorrow over something or someone lost. They were trained to express lament in a way...
What does it mean to be made in the image of God? Genesis 1:26 says: “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,...
What is Shavuot (pronounced Sha-voo-oat)? Shavuot is also the celebration of the Feast of Weeks or to use a term the church understands better – Pentecost. It is the Jewish celebration of the giving of the Torah (the books of Genesis through Deuteronomy) to...
As we are quickly approaching the season of Passover, I am reminded that the timing of the death and resurrection of Christ can be quite confusing since the Jews count the days from sundown to twilight of the next day as one day. I won’t go into the details of...
Christ is risen! He has risen indeed! Easter has always been a wonderful time for the church and Christians to remember what Christ has done for each of us as He died on the cross and was resurrected almost 2000 years ago. In doing so, He gave us the possibility of...
I find the ways the Messianic Jews and the Christian Church order their calendar years to be interesting. In the Church, we always celebrated the “biggies” – Easter and Christmas. Those who only attended those services during the year were kind of...
