tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61804469220398952892011-11-16T07:55:44.683-08:00"To love Truth is to love God." -Chad SwiftChad Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17391187435378593320noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6180446922039895289.post-64197951516468006652011-11-16T05:26:00.001-08:002011-11-16T07:11:04.782-08:00

The Torah Keeper Before you begin, I have a question:  Do you want to know the real Yeshua, or are you content with the image of a culturally conceived 'Jesus'?  If your answer is the latter, then you don't want to read on. Yeshua (Jesus) was a Jew among Jews, born of the tribe of Judah, in the line of King David (Mat 1:1-17), circumcised on the eighth day (Lu 2:21), dedicated at the Temple in

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The Birth of Yeshua Yeshua and December 25th have nothing in common.  The date of Christmas has confused Jews as to the validity of Yeshua's jewishness (since it's also the day of celebrating Baal, Ra, Mithra, Saturn, and various false Sun deities).  Yeshua was really born around September / October of 3BC, during the hebrew month of Tishrei.  The truth of Yeshua's birth is gloriously layered

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"Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:  “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (

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If Jesus or one of his first disciples opened a congregation down the street in any town, USA, I doubt most Christians would ever attend.  The expression of faith found there would be altogether strange to the stream of Western Christianity.  The comforts and familiarity of modern churches would keep most Christians flocking to their contemporary brands of ‘faith’, so much so that many supposed

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Over the past month I've been poking around the colonization of Georgia, my home state. I've become more and more aware over the years of how history really is His Story, and returning to the history books to look behind the apparent occurrences of happenstance and see the hand of Sovereign God. From the House of Prayer, where many gatekeepers gather to contend for the Kingdom come, our

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