25 Tevet — He Came To Save, Not Destroy
We are living in very unique and perilous times. Troubling events are occurring all over the world, in the nation and even locally, exposing the inconsistencies, hypocrisy and wickedness of the day in which we live. For the believer, these things serve as a reminder...
Daily Bread — Saturday, January 6, 2024
Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. (Deuteronomy 4:39) There are things that we know about and then there are things that we know. and by that I mean, we know...
24 Tevet — Let’s Be Selfless
It was on this day in 1785 that Haym Salomon, one of the primary financiers of the American Revolution, died. Salomon was a Polish born Jew who immigrated to the American colonies just as the first shots of the Revolution were fired. In a very short time, Salomon...
Daily Bread — Friday, January 5, 2024
Did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your...
23 Tevet — Conceived In Iniquity
When my oldest son was born, he became the first-born grandchild on both sides of the family. Naturally everyone doted on him and, frankly, spoiled him rotten. He was given a multitude of gifts from family members, as was his mother who was presented a particular...
Daily Bread — Thursday, January 4, 2024
For the Lord your God is a merciful God, He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. (Deuteronomy 4:31) As Moses prophesied, when God's people who were scattered throughout the nations found themselves in...
22 Tevet — The Fence Around the Torah
Back in 1969 my Dad took our family to a drive-in theater to see Walt Disney’s animated feature, 101 Dalmatians. Besides the excitement of seeing the movie on the big screen and eating popcorn in the car, the memory that lingers in my mind about that particular...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, January 3, 2024
When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days. (Deuteronomy 4:30) As I said yesterday, rabbinical commentators believe that this last day "revival" described above will come during a time of great distress just before the Messianic...
21 Tevet — The Significance of the Insignificant
Tradition says that it was on this day that Simeon, the son of Jacob and Leah was born: “Then she conceived again and bore a son, and said, ‘Because the Lord has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.’ And she called his name Simeon.”...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, January 2, 2024
When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days. (Deuteronomy 4:30) Moses prophesied to the people that they would, in time, be scattered through the nations and made to serve gods of wood and stone. However, in their exile and...
Daily Bread — Monday, January 1, 2024
But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29) It is interesting and a bit pathetic that, in our human frailty, we often fail to appreciate what is before us. By that...
Daily Bread — Sunday, December 31, 2023
And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. (Deuteronomy...