Has a nice, catchy “ring” to it, doesn’t it? Fear abounds, where faith is not found…..I would expect to see that on a marquee outside a synagogue or a church. But what is the “fear” I am talking about? Is it fear of loss? Fear of death? Fear of going
I would guess that everyone, at one time or another, has thought to themself, “What if….?” What if I had known that was going to happen? What if I hadn’t said that? What if I had said that? What if I had met my wife earlier? I can tell you,
This parashah is the one between the end and start of the Torah reading schedule. On the eighth day of Sukkot, called Sh’mini Atzeret (also called Simchat Torah, Joy of Torah) we celebrate turning the Torah back from the end of Deuteronomy to the beginning of Genesis. Today’s parashah is
If you are a Baby-Boomer like me, you remember the great movies that had sequels. For my younger readers, that’s when you find out what happened after what you are watching. Today they’re all about prequels, finding out what happened before what you are watching occurred. We had “Son of
Anyone remember that old song? It was actually the title song to a Roy Rogers movie from the 1940’s. Basically, it tells of a man who doesn’t want to be restricted, a man who wants to be free to choose what he does and where he does it. God is
As we come to the final chapters of the Torah, we find Moses finishing his service to the nation of Israel (and to God) with a song, just as he did after crossing the Red Sea, when he was just starting. This “Song of Moses” is both a stern chastisement
Here I am, sitting at home, writing in my blog and wondering how much longer I will be able to go before the caffeine (actually, lack of caffeine) headache starts to hit. Last night began Yom Kippur, and we had a Kol Nidre (Hebrew for “All oaths”) service. Despite technical
I live in Brevard County, Florida, so Matthew came through with a vengeance. However, God was good and protected us and most of the neighbors. A lot of tree debris, my screened in porch suffered a large branch falling on it and bending one of the main supports (Hello? USAA?),
I really can’t stand it when I am reading Acts 9 and the paragraph title is something like this: Paul’s Conversion on the Road to Damascus” First of all, his name wasn’t Paul- it was Shaul. and second of all, he NEVER converted. Historically, there was only one other religion
It’s 5777. I had someone tell me, just yesterday, that this should be a very good year. The number ‘5’ reminds us of the 5 books of Moses (Torah) and of the 5 divisions to the Psalms. The number ‘7’ is probably the MOST powerful number in the bible. It represents completeness, as