In this week’s message, we are going to hear about name changes and in particular Joshua’s Hebrew name change. We may sometimes wonder if every letter and word in the Hebrew Scriptures is there for a reason…. whether in name change or in word change. Well, here is a good case for keeping things to […]

Some of us go a long way to find treasures when we have them so very close already. Manna was a treasure of bdellium and coriander. It was given in doses just enough so that the children of Israel would come to the Lord on a daily basis. But for many of us, the manna […]

The Israelites wanted to go back. They complained about the absence of leeks and onions that tantalized their taste buds. They complained about the loss of luxury they had back in Egypt. Yes, the children of Israel seemed to selectively choose to forget all that the Lord had done for them not long before that. […]

  In this week’s message, we are going to hear about the hardened heart of Israel. But they are not alone, man has not changed. Even after the Noahic flood with only 8 survivors, man did not change. For just after the flood, in Gen. 8:21, God summarized man’s condition saying “ …although the imagination of […]

When it comes to God’s description of Himself, number one seems to be quite a dichotomy. While God defines Himself with the number one (1), He gives Himself the lowest number, the least of all numbers. Yet within this lowly number one, lies every element of His created universe. What makes this so fascinating is […]

Let us not be partakers of darkness, but as the lampstand in the Tabernacle was to point the way to the Holy of Holies, let us walk as children of light. Without the light of the menorah, the priests could not work at all in the holy place. Likewise, without the light of Messiah which […]

All too often we listen to the wrong things that people tell us. We feel their judgment, making us believe that we are not capable or worthy. Well, when it came to the tribes of Israel whether large or small in number, whether first or last in the wilderness march, whether situated on the east […]

Chapter 5 of Numbers made open and public internal sin and now, having dealt with that, God continues to stress holiness, offering each person, man or woman the opportunity to be set apart, to become, if you will, a Nazirite and to be dedicated to the service of God. Though not from the Levitical priesthood, […]

Chapter 5 of Numbers made open and public internal sin and now, having dealt with that, God continues to stress holiness, offering each person, man or woman the opportunity to be set apart, to become, if you will, a Nazirite and to be dedicated to the service of God. Though not from the Levitical priesthood, […]

Chanukah and Christmas: The Great Similarity