Joseph’s story continues with him testing his brothers one last time. He has his silver drinking cup placed into Benjamin’s sack. In the morning the brothers had barely gone far when Joseph sent his men after them. When they were accused of stealing, they recount the situation they encountered with the original money in their […]
Genesis
Continue to Live, While People Push You to Your Destiny
Life always seems to have a way of throwing curve balls at you when you’re expecting a slow, easy ball. Then when you think you’ve got a hang of the curve ball, you’re thrown a fast ball that hits you straight in the gut. It knocks the wind out of you, causing you to double […]
How Do You Say, “I’m Sorry?”
Most sermons about Jacob made him look like the scum of the earth. After all, he showed no mercy when his brother was hungry, which forced him to sell his birthright. He did steal Esau’s blessing. He did deceive his father. But that’s not all to his story. When you read his story you’ll see […]
Amazing Faith Brings Close Relationship with God
In this week’s Torah portion, Sarah dies at 127 years old. Her son, Isaac was around 37 years old. Abraham was about 137 years old. When Sarah died Abraham inquired about a piece of land for a burial site for his family. The Hittites offered to give him the land. There are two possible reasons […]
God Gave Commands to All of His Creation – B’reisheet (Genesis – In the Beginning)
Whenever you bring up the laws of God some people become defensive and mean acting. They immediately begin to tell you Jesus abolished God’s laws that were given to the Israelites on Mount Sinai. They say that was the old covenant and that we’re under the law of grace now so we don’t have to […]
The Human Being Became Man and Woman – B’reisheet (Genesis – In the Beginning)
The Feast Days of YHWH have ended along with the reading of the last chapter of the Torah. A new cycle has begun and it begins with Genesis 1:1-6:8. It continues with the Haftarah of Isaiah 42:5-43:10 and ends with the Gospel of John 1:1-18. This first Torah portion (Genesis 1:1-6:8) is aptly described as […]
The God Particle
When I came across the Hebraic Roots Network on-demand website I watched a video by Brad Scott called “The God Particle.” I started the series from the beginning and I got to say it is amazing. He talks about the Bible from a scientific point of view. He helps us understand that what scientists are […]
The New Testament Quoting the Old Testament Part 4
Some people don’t realize how often the Old Testament is quoted in the New Testament. I found this list on the internet and decided to write out the actual scriptures so you can read them for yourself. There are over 200 quotes, but I am only listing a few at a time. Since beginning this […]
The New Testament Quoting the Old Testament Part 3
Some people don’t realize how often the Old Testament is quoted in the New Testament. I found this list on the internet and decided to write out the actual scriptures so you can read them for yourself. There are over 200 quotes, but I am only listing a few at a time. Since beginning this […]
The New Testament Quoting the Old Testament Part 2
Some people don’t realize how often the Old Testament is quoted in the New Testament. I found this list on the internet and decided to write out the actual scriptures so you can read them for yourself. There are over 200 quotes, but I am only listing ten sets of scriptures at a time. I […]
