Hot off the production line, our new video Christian Faith and Practice Through Passover (and Unleavened Bread and First Fruits) explains the simple steps for believers to show our love of the Father and our Messiah Jesus the Christ by observing the Passover.
We talk about the biblical specifics, the difference between tradition and the Bible, the calendar, and circumcision. Following the Bible is easy. It’s the traditions of men that make it difficult.
Shalom
Bruce
A pastor at Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona, Jeff Durbin gives a great presentation on some general apologetic approaches. I like his energy, his use of Scripture, and his willingness to be bold. He’s also got a lot of excellent points you could incorporate into your own conversations. Even if you are not as bold as he.
I don’t agree with all his positions. He misses the point of the Law, and tends to question Christian orthodoxy while holding on to many of it’s tenets with “closed hand.” But he still seems to have a great deal good to say; worth listening.
Shalom,
Bruce
I can’t help it. I really like this for some reason. So I’m posting it everywhere I can. If you’ve already seen it, thanks for watching. If you haven’t you are really missing out. Even if I am a proud grandpa. Raine puts so much expression into her signing.
Off her left shoulder is her brother Isaiah, and the next spot further to Raine’s left (blond hair) is her sister Keira. So we got a bonus of all three in one song.
Of course, I absolutely do not approve of the person who wrote and sang the song – a guy by the name of Ray Boltz. After a long career as a “Christian” musician he recently declared he was gay. He is now divorced from a wife of several decades. Typically, this is modern Christianity. The church does not teach the Bible, only opinions about the Bible, and this is one of the results. I’m sure he was encouraged to sin this way by all the “affirmation” homosexuals are receiving in the church. This is the fruit of the anti-christ. The guy sings nicely, and composes some nice songs. The sentiment is nice. But all the singing about Jesus doesn’t mean a thing if it is only coming from the lips. If it is not in line with God’s Word, it doesn’t matter how much sentiment you put into it – sincere lawlessness is still lawlessness. And Jesus will still declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.” (Matthew 7:23)
I don’t like mixing these two things – my granddaughter’s excellent work in ASL and a singer who has chosen a destructive lifestyle change. But something needs to be said, even if it is not pleasant. As far as “affirming” the homosexual lifestyle choice, people who do so are just as destructive as the lifestyle itself. See our video ‘Am I A Homophobe?’ for just a start on the facts, statistics, and quotes from homosexual authors concerning the awfulness of this high-handed sin.
Shalom,
Bruce
The song has been out a while, but this music video just came out a month ago. You can also catch it on our youtube playlist at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplhkoMar4vJujRhv8Pwfo3OA1iSJ4fKL
We have several playlists and about 40 teaching videos now on our youtube channel at www.youtube.com/user/WholeBible/. Check them out and subscribe!
Shalom
Bruce
Just an update to let people know we have uploaded 14 videos to our youtube channel so far. Subscribe so you can get notice of new postings. View, like and comment also to help get the Word out! This is why we’ve been fairly quiet lately. It takes some time to make them and do the post-production work.
Another one for Maggie. I’m not a big fan of rap, but this song is good both for content and for listenability. Lyrics are in the notes.
False Teachers. It’s about time someone is naming names.
I always like this song. Learned to play it too. It’s the story of a Pharisee called Simon and the woman who wept on the feet of Jesus at a dinner at Simon’s house, and anointed Him with costly oil.
The story is in Luke 7 starting at verse 36.
This is the original album version. There’s also a more recent live version with an insert of his wife doing ASL.
Beautiful to Me Don Francisco
The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand. (Ezekiel 33:1–6, ESV)
Sounding the trumpet (or shofar). Right click to play and stop.
Skipping ahead a day, here’s an oldie from Peter, Paul and Mary.
“Don’t let the light go out, let it shine through our love and our tears…”
And Here’s your boogie woogie for tonight while your washing the dishes….