This past week (and a little more) in the Messianic blogosphere, plus related news items.
- Boundaries between Messianic Jews and Gentiles – Derek Leman boots a gentile from his congregation because the gentile man kept parts of the Torah which Derek’s theology deems specific to Jews. I’m being uncharitable, so go read it yourself.
- Basic Questions – Daniel, a Messianic blogger who has long believed Yeshua is not divine, now finds himself questioning whether Yeshua is the Messiah. In my experience, this is where the road leads for those who say Yeshua is something less than what the gospels make him out to be: the glorified, risen Son of God.
- Conversions to Messianic Judaism? – New Messianic blogger Daniel Nessim posts his thoughts on whether gentiles drawn to Messiah and Torah should be converting to Messianic Judaism.
- “Messianic” growing in popularity – Darren has started blogging again, this time posting some personal anecdotes suggesting this Messianic thing is growing:
- Tips for a smooth-sailing Passover – Aaron Eby has some tips to make sure your Passover seder goes smoothly.
- Passover, Easter, and God’s Seal – My older brother Jesse has written a piece on how Easter eventually came to supplant Passover, and how this relates to prophecies in Ezekiel and Revelation.
- Was King David a Priest Forever? – A excellent rebuttal to the claim that Psalm 110 is about someone other than Messiah Yeshua.
- Midrash, etc. – Rabbi Carl Kinbar has started blogging. Kinbar is an intellectual, scholarly Messianic Jewish mind, and is the Provost of the Messianic Jewish Theological Institute (MJTI).
- Eating At the Master’s Table, Part III – James encourages us: “Before any of the ‘doing’ of Passover, stop doing anything. Like any other holiday, Passover can be filled with a seemingly endless stream of “things to do” and we can be caught up in the ‘chores’ of Passover so much that we completely miss the meaning.”
- Sacrifices, the Older and the Newer – Derek Leman discusses sacrifices in the Tenakh and additionally dissects some issues raised through textual criticism.
Podcasts
- Pastoral Epistles – John McKee has started a study on a rarely-covered topic in the Messianic movement: the pastoral epistles of the New Testament.
Forgive me, fine blog readers, if I have missed any blogs/podcasts/video blogs. Having been ill recently, I wasn’t able to stay current on all the Messianic blogs.
In any case, enjoy these tasty bracha bits!