Congregation Beth Messiah 2022 Messages

God is faithful and His word is true; whether we like it or not. Rabbi Richard brings this biblical truth home from both scripture and personal experience.

Scripture Introduction Last week, we started a two part series called “Life is Better Together.” We said that there are three things that are always true when it comes to temptation. When it comes to temptation there is more at stake than you realize. There is a direct correlation between every temptation…

Scripture Introduction The Delayed Gratification Experiment: There is more at stake than you realize. Researchers and psychologist wanted to test and see if a child who could not delay gratification as a child would have the same problems as an adult and vice verse. It was called the Marshmallow test…

Sermon Introduction Rapunzel is not really a story about a beautiful woman but a story about the power of love to heal the blind. In the In the original, pre-disney version of the story written by teh Brother’s Grimm, an evil sorceress comes and imprisons Rapunzel in a tower and puts thorns all around…

Scripture Introduction In the Mishnah tractate Sotah 9:15: Rabbi Yair says, “Heedfulness leads to cleanliness, cleanliness leads to cleanness, cleanness leads to abstinence, abstinence leads to holiness, holiness leads to modesty, modesty leads to the fear of sin, the fear of sin leads to piety, piety…

Scripture Introduction An old Peanuts cartoon shows Lucy, Linus, and Charlie Brown lying on the grass and looking at the clouds. “What do you think you see, Linus?” asks Lucy. Linus points at the clouds and answers, “Well, those clouds up there look to me like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean.…

Scripture Introduction In the 1929 Rose Bowl game, Georgia Tech and the University of California were locked in a defensive struggle. The score was zero-zero, when “Stumpy” Thomason, quarterback for Georgia Tech, fumbled the ball and University of California defensive center Roy Riegels got the chance…