Teaching on the month of Elul, the sixth month on the Biblical/Hebrew/Jewish/Israel calendar, from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Follows two months of golden calf and sin of spies. Quote from Rashi. Month of repentance, forgiveness, and mercy. Romantic month. Hebrew acronym for Elul from Song of Songs. Symbolism of Pesach and Shavuot. Drawing near. Going from 'back to back' to 'face to face' at Yom Kippur. Constellation is Betulah, the Virgin. Story from Likkutei Torah, the king in the field. What John Maxwell calls moving slowly through the crowd. Practical applications and Jewish customs for Elul. Blow the shofar, God's alarm clock. Theme of awakening. Pray Tehillim 27. Meditate on Shir ha Shirim. Pursue shalom and reconciliation with everyone. Have tefillin and mezuzot checked by sofer. Symbolism of phylacteries and doorpost. Questions for men. Month of preparation, comparable to Friday. Soul-searching, praying slichot, humbling oneself. Story of Rabbi Saadia Gaon, an Arabic speaking Jew. Romantic lines from ancient Hebrew love poetry.

Teaching on Deuteronomy 16-21 and Acts 10-12 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Tzedek tirdof. Mazal tov. False basis for Rabbinic authority and Oral Law. Context is court based in Jerusalem and civil law. The Christmas tree Asherah pole connection. Fertility rituals, addictions, and perversions are incompatible with true worship. Sacred pillars, steeples, and spires. Imports from Egypt by Constantine. Opposite of false spirituality is being wholehearted in worshipping Yahweh. You are a soldier. Don't freak out and lose heart. 'Waking the Dead' by John Eldredge. Spiritually mature people pray over events in their area. Ananias, Paul, Cornelius, and the Jerusalem congregation were all praying. Yeshua the Judge, Teacher, King, Prophet, and Redeemer. Cast the first stone is a quote from the Torah. Qualifications for a true king of Israel. Not a foreigner, a brother of the Jewish people. Yeshua hasn't yet fulfilled the whole Torah. He will at his return. The resurrected Prophet. Yeshua used to say something often. Hebrew highlights. Chassidim in the New Testament. Tamid, regular prayers of shacharit and mincha. Tanners stunk because they used dog poop. Arba kanfot are the four corners of the tallit in Peter's vision. Preaching shalom. Paul's name was not changed from Saul to Paul. He was always both. Night of escape through the reeds.

Teaching on Deuteronomy 21-25 and Acts 13-15 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Crowds and flash mobs are fickle and unstable. Saul's name was never changed to Paul, he was always called by both names, a Hebrew and a Greek Diaspora name. Other examples, Justus, Mark, and Jesus. Gospel according to Torah. Hebrew wordplay for fulfillment through resurrection and freedom through forgiveness. Worthy goal to serve Elohim's purpose in your generation. Write this unpopular Bible verse on your fridge with a happy face on it. Debate in Acts 15 is about salvation. More mitzvot in this parasha than any other. Technical least of the commandments. Great people scrutinize this passage. Contains more laws that God haters mock who'll either be in the nosebleed seats in the kingdom, or in the frontrow seats in hell. Three P's of Torah hermeneutics, practice, principal, and person. What do do, why, and who told you. Mocked mitzvot. Stoning the rebellious son. Mother bird and eggs scenario. Pauline nomology. Messianic silhouettes. The bechor, firstborn. Yeshua the Talui. Humorous applications. Building parapets and eating from your neighbor's garden. Make every effort to restore the lost Torah to your brother. Adenda by extremist feminism to remove all gender distinctions in the home and society. Devastating byproducts of abortion, semiorphaned daycare children, and skewed marital relationships. Gender roles run deeper than physical functions of biological reproduction. Shaatnez and the polyester. Key to greatness in the kingdom. Tzitzit are for Mashiach's bride. Sin unto death in 1 John defined by the Torah. Johannine hamartiology. St Louise Ship and repentance for Canadian antisemitism with David Demian and Watchmen for the Nations. Yeshua's teachings on divorce and remarriage square with Torah. Remember where you came from. Don't muzzle the ox and support your preachers.

Teaching on Deuteronomy 29-31 and Acts 19-23 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Biblical revival ?according to Deuteronomy 30 includes a return to the land of Israel and to the Torah of Moshe. National unity of klal Yisrael. Mediatorial presence of the Aleph and Tav in the Mosaic covenant. ?Disgusting idolatry and that which goes into the toilet. Message of the enlarged Lamed. Dealing with ?disappointment and confusion. Surviving the faith crisis. Embracing mystery. Anti Judaism of Ignatius. ?Jewish context of believers meeting on Sunday. Paul observing Unleavened Bread and Pentecost, ?keeping the Law, giving speeches in Hebrew, and shouting, I am a Jew. ?

Teaching on Yom Teruah, the Day of Trumpets and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Celebrating a triple whammy of Messianic revelation. Breaking down the ?directives of the day to Shabbaton or rest, Zikkaron or remembrance, Mikra Kodesh or holy convocation, ?Teruah or shouting and trumpet blasts, and Offerings by Fire . Explaining traditional terms for such as Day ?Trumpets, Day of the King, Covered Day, Day of Judgement, Birthday of the World, Head of the Year, Day of ?Remembrance, and the Day or Today. Examining David Stern's interpretation of the Lord's Day in ?Revelation. Reviewing moments of shouting and shofar sounding including the giving of the Torah, Joshua ?and the Jericho conquest, Gideon and Ehud, and Saul and Solomon's coronations. Previewing the future ?Great Tribulation, Ingathering of exiles, Return of Mashiach, Resurrection of the dead, and Judgement. ?

Teaching on Deuteronomy 32 and Acts 24-26 from from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Epic drama of the song of Moshe, replete with hero, villain and fair maiden, narrator and audience, and ?five gripping acts ending with the equivalent of the cowboy riding off into the sunset, the happy couple wed in ?the Jane Austen story, and smiling faces in Little House on the Prarie. How this song is for the last ?generation in the Acharit Hayamim, the End of Days, and how it is just as much about the Church as it is ?about Israel. Why Gentile believers, especially Hebrew Roots or Ephraimite types, are a source of jealousy ?and irritation to some Messianic Jews and mainline Messianic Jewish organizations. Mosaic ?dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Practical instruction on how to respond when hurt or offended. ?Relational reconciliation and conflict resolution. Jewish Sect of the Nazerenes. Nazis raised from the ?dead. Paul the member of the Sanhedrin. The anti-Hebrew bias of English Bible translators. A worthy life ?goal.?

Teaching on Chag Sukkot, Festival of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Season of our Joy. Jewish traditional practices ?including bringing your nice furniture and fine china and cutlery into the Sukkah, eating, drinking, and taking ?your leisure in the Sukkah, and studying the Torah in the Sukkah. The royal pavilion of the King. The Baal ?Shem Tov on the all encompassing mitzvah. 70 bulls and the times of the Gentiles. Story from Avodah Zarah ??3a about Gentiles kicking over their booths. Zionist act and connection to Jerusalem. Imitation of God. ?Renewal of family prayer. Uriah the noble and David the slouch - a call to the body of Messiah to stand with ?the Jewish people. Future Exodus and Great Tribulation. Encounter with Esau, the dark night, and a new ?name. Key to revival. Romantic secret place. Object lesson on Lulav - willow, myrtle, palm, and citron. Hallel ?and Hoshana. ?

Teaching on Deuteronomy 33-34 and Acts 27-28 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Message for Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret. The how, what, when, and who of leaving a legacy for the ?generations to come, focusing on spoken and written blessings. Yeshua the Aleph and Tav coming with ten ?thousand holy angels. Messianic connections betwen the giving of the fiery Torah and the relationship of ?Yeshua and his disciples. Torah as national legacy. Difference between God as popular King and God as ?absolute Ruler. Keys to the full manifestation of the Kingdom of God and unity of the body of Christ. Watershed coronation of David at Hebron. Why Izzy is part of the Prince Albert ministerial. John and Stacy ?Eldredge dispel the myth of the bland helpmeet. Women as lifesavers and lifesustainers. Messianic ?Chassidim. Hebraic understanding of hating family members. Elohim the Bush Dweller. The sacred ?partnership between businessmen and Torah scholars. The prophetic illumination of the First Day. The Fast ?of Yom Kippur in the Acts of the Apostles. The fickleness of crowds. The crunch of crisis. Six snapshots of ?Saul, intrepid emissary of Mashiach in action in the midst of real life danger. ?

Teaching on Genesis 1-6 and James 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Understanding commandments as blessings. Yeshua the Ben Adam, the Bar Enosh. Parallels between the blessing given to Adam and the Great Commission. First mitzvot in the Torah relating to diet and sexuality. First and last Shabbats in history. Hebrew connection between hope, intention, and immersion, that is tikvah, kavanah, and mikveh respectively. Gods appointed times in Genesis 1. Clothing the naked. The voice of the murderer. Hebrew connection between the bride and completion. The absence of Adam on a business trip, watching football, out for a beer, at an elders meeting, or gone to another Bible study. Union with Mashiach. Hebrew undertones and Jewish context of the epistle of James. Letter to the Twelve Tribes of Israel, not the 38,000 denominations of Christianity. Torah as mirror and gazing. Church as synagogue. Good religion versus bad religion.

Teaching on Genesis 6-11 and James 4-5 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Story about Izzy's Doukhobour ancestors who immigrated to Canada from Georgia in sight of Mount Ararat. Parashat Noach as prophesy of End of Days and the coming perfect firestorm. Parable of special file transferred from hard drive before total system restore and removal of worms, viruses, and trojan horses. Torah as survival manual for global cataclysms. Keys to surviving as told by great great great Grandpa Noah. Grace and the power of the Gospel. Practical steps to humility. Lifestyle righteousness. Robust construction worker faith. Taking yourself for a walk. Noach as leader in family and community. Noahs wife as unsung hero and lifesaver. Funny skit. Microcosmic beasts such as biological warfare and pandemics. Macrocosmic beasts such as Chamas and Islamic terrorists. Noah hammered and unclothed. Honouring fathers in church history. The difference between physical and soul pornography. The legendary tzadik. Running for the cupboard for vitamin C, echinacea, oregano oil, hydrogen peroxide and MMS versus running first for the phone for prayer.