Preached at Christ Church Jaffa in Israel on the Day of Pentecost 2025. Come, Holy Spirit!The Holy Spirit is come! Hallelujah! Today is Pentecost Sunday. We celebrate the day God poured out his Holy Spirit on all flesh. It is the day when he writes Torah on our hearts, as promised in Jeremiah 31. It is the day God begins to knit Jew and Gentile into the one new humanity as foreshadowed by the story […]
I grew up in a church full of disaffected Catholics. Iconography was looked down upon. As a younger Christian, I made all the arguments against icons and crucifixes. Then I lived a little more life
Preached at New Jerusalem House of Prayer 1 Feb 2025. Parashat Bo I will remind myself of Yah’s doings;yes, I will remember your wonders of old.I will meditate on your workand think about what you have done. (Psalm 77) Parashat Bo recounts the first Passover, when God freed hundreds of thousands of Israelite slaves from the oppression of Egypt. We remember God’s great victory every year during the Passover Seder. And when you are a […]
Christmas is the “most wonderful time of the year.” So why do we read about the death of children when we’ve just celebrated the incarnation of Resurrection Life itself? Jesus came down and became flesh to live among us to live our sorrow and open the door to everlasting joy.
God, in the Scriptures, makes redemptive promises not just to Jerusalem but to the nations of the war-torn Middle East