H4CBlog

Quite regularly I answer emails from well-meaning souls who have become so enamored with the Jewish roots of the Christian faith that they run the risk of abandoning the liberty that Yeshua came to give us… This is tragic and greatly saddens me.

Just today I received an email from someone who is studying [...]

Based on some comments I posted recently regarding the liberty we have in Yeshua (Jesus), a dear Messianic brother wrote me and asked whether I meant to say that a Gentile or Messianic Jew should actually be forbidden to wear tzitzit or other traditional accouterments of the Jewish people.  Does our liberty in Yeshua, then, mean [...]

Many of us are in various states of denial regarding our own sinful condition and need for deliverance, which can be illustrated by the case of the metzora (one afflicted with the spiritual disease called tzara’at) and its progression in the life of the afflicted.

A doctor friend of mine recently reminded me that [...]

We live in such an age of shamelessness and degradation that it might be helpful to think about a basic principle of Jewish thinking called tzeniut (tse-nee-OOT). This concept concerns the rules of modesty, chastity or the derech eretz (good manners, decorum) of the spiritual Jew.

Tzeniut is an act of chesed v’emettoward [...]