Huh? Whaddaya mean, “Forgiveness is only for the past?” Can’t I be forgiven for what I might do tomorrow? Am I s’posed to be perfect from this moment on? The answer is “Yes” to the first, and “No” to the second. The real question should be, “Am I forgiven automatically?”
If you are asking yourself, “What the heck is a ‘salvation gene?'”, I have to admit that I wonder about that, myself. And I’m the one who came up with the idea! The other day I was thinking (yes, it hurts when I do that) about what it means to
The Torah serves four main purposes: It is a Ketuba (marriage certificate) between God and the world, through the Jewish people, who are the recipients of the Torah It is a national constitution, outlining all the laws and ordinances that a nation needs to survive It is a covenant between
They say good always triumphs over evil, and love conquers everything. I believe that both are true, but only in a spiritual sense: in the real world, I have seen that hate can be stronger than love and evil often wins out. Sometimes evil does get what’s coming to it
There was an article in our Florida Today newspaper the other day about churches adding purple glitter to the ashes for use on Ash Wednesday. Why? To show support for LGBT Christians. LGBT Christians- that sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? According to the word of God, homosexuality and cross-dressing
This parashah starts with the reunion of Moses to his wife and children, whom he had sent away while still in Egypt to be with her father, Jethro, the Priest of Midian. Now in the desert and with Egypt no longer a threat of any kind, Jethro brings Moses’ family
Why do we obey? When we are told to do something, we always have the choice to obey or refuse. There is a middle course- obey the order but don’t do it the way we were told. That isn’t really refusing, but it’s pretty darn close to it. In the
What is faith? When I want to know the meaning of something that matters to me, on both an eternal and spiritual level, rather than what Mr. Webster or Wikipedia may think, I like to go to the Manual (my ‘manual’ is the bible because I think it is the
The plagues continue, with locusts, darkness and the final plague, the death of the firstborn of Egypt. Moses is instructed by God what the Israelites must do to be protected from the angel of death, for even though Goshen had been protected from the other plagues, it seems that the
I really don’t want this ministry to become a political sounding board, but I am going to make an exception today because of what I see happening. It doesn’t have to do with any policies or choices that President Trump (yes, he is- deal with it) has recently initiated, or with