Growing up as a kid in the 1950s and early 60s, I read a lot of superhero comic books. I even read the Letters pages, where readers sent com

In English we call the fourth book of the Bible “Numbers.” This is a translation of the Latin title of the book, Numeri, which is a transla

A few years ago I was asked to teach a seminar on “Hebrew Holidays and Their Import For Christians” at Bradley University’s Osher...

In the early years of the twentieth century, God did an amazing thing. He poured out His Spirit in a mighty and marvelous way. All over the

I became a born-again Christian in 1972. In the 1970s a popular Christian slogan was "Jesus is Lord!" This slogan was shouted and

The modern Messianic Jewish Movement began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when great numbers of Jewish people came to the conclusion tha

As I write this, Passover, the festival of freedom, has passed. Now we are counting the seven Sabbaths to Shavuot (Pentecost), the anniversa

“He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days” (Acts 1:3) “After these things Yeshua s

MATZAH, transliterated into English as matzah, matzoh, or matzo, is unleavened bread. The history of matzah goes back to early Biblical time

In the spring of 2000, I had a solo exhibition of my artwork at Peoria’s Contemporary Art Center. My exhibition consisted of around thirty

People who read and study the Bible arrive at conclusions about what the Biblical text teaches. Some people arrive at their conclusions by t

My spiritual identity is centered in Jesus (Yeshua), not in Sabbath-keeping. However, this does not lessen the importance of keeping the Sab

It has been said that Martin Luther hated the Book of Esther, "a document which permits no Christological interpretation because it is

"Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort

We live in a world inhabited by two sorts of intelligent beings: visible and invisible. There are two categories of visible beings: children

I have often heard people use the words spirit and spiritual when talking about art and art-related topics, but I have rarely if ever heard

I grew up in the 1950s and 60s in Peoria. Peoria is not a big city like Chicago, but it's not a small town, either. Kids growing up in a

"Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is Yahweh." (Psalm 144:15) Every loving father

You have probably heard the old worn-out cliché about God answering prayer: "God always answers prayer. Sometimes He says Yes, and some

What is the Jethro model? For readers who may not be very familiar with the Bible, we are not talking about television's Jethro Bodine o

"Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Isaiah 59:1 If you

Compromise can be good or bad, depending on the situation. It can be good when trying to make a decision that will satisfy everyone. For exa

About 25 years ago the pastor of the congregation I attended preached a sermon telling Bible believers why they should not celebrate Hallowe

According to the Bible, spring marks the beginning of the year. “This month [Aviv, the month of Passover] shall be unto you the beginning of