How does someone keep the Sabbath? We are instructed to “remember the Sabbath day” (Exodus 12:8) and to “observe the Sabbath day” (Deuteronomy 5:12). So how do we keep this commandment? What should we do?
Continue reading →Here is every reference in both the Old and New Testaments where the Hebrew and Greek words for “Sabbath” occur, no matter how they are translated. I wanted to see the context in which they were used, see where they are used the most, and observe where they are not mentioned at all.
Continue reading →Not everything you read on the internet about the Hebrew Roots Movement is true. If you’ve Got Questions, be very careful where you get your answers.
Continue reading →This past week I took some things over to my son’s home, and when I went into the living room my 10-year old grandson was sitting on the couch. He looked up at me and said, “I’m reading the Bible.”
Continue reading →This compact edition with all eighteen books that are part of the Revised Standard Version will complement most any Bible translation. The ESV Apocrypha preserves the accuracy of the RSV while updating the language to modern English usage, including a new translation of Tobit based on the longer Greek text.
Continue reading →The Feast of First Fruits as a common designation among Messianic followers of Yeshua for a day described only in Leviticus 23:10-11. Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, “When you enter the land which I am … Continue reading →
What does it really mean to be a believer, a follower of Yeshua? Most of us who claim Yeshua as our Master think we know what it is to be a believer. Here are some thoughts from my friend Tom on putting that into practice.
Continue reading →Passover (Pesach) is observed on the evening of 14 Aviv, the fourteenth day of the first Biblical month. For the Gregorian year 2021, Passover is on the evening of Saturday, March 27. The seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag haMatzot) … Continue reading →
When is Passover? It doesn’t seem like a hard question to answer:
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD’S Passover.
(Leviticus 23:5 NASB)
But alas, there is not universal agreement as to what this means.
Continue reading →Those of us in the English speaking world read our Bibles as translated for us from the original ancient languages. Unless we are fluent in another language, English is the only real option. An Interlinear Bible can help to bridge that gap.
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