The candles do not need to be of any particular color. Standard custom is to use white candles, but there is no law about this. They should be large enough so that they are still burning during (at least) the beginning of the meal, when the family is together at the table. Most Jew...
prayers, intercessions and thanks to be made for Kings and Authorities, so that through their peace, we would live a life of quietness and peace as well as it paving the way for the Gospel to be preached to all, so that more people might be saved. This is the reason for ...
her position was not perfect. It could have been better if she had been in more recent contact with the king. But she had a position – she was still queen. Esther didn’t try to wriggle out of her mission and wait for a better...
I’ll go with diglossia as the real reason: to speak fluent Arabic you basically have to learn two languages, one of which there seems to be a collective conspiracy not to acknowledge the existence of, much less teach. But the SAE issue is obviously also relevant; Modern Hebrew basically e...
Please forgive my rant. You all know by now my Judeo values of repairing the world and when we do harm to one, we do harm to all. Another Jewish credo is when you don’t speak up when you see wrong, you are complicit. We need to grieve and then move to action. When there are...
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in the Messiah may be ashamed of their slande...
The Pastor of the gathering of these believers decided to rock the boat a bit and “test the waters” so to speak. He came into the room carrying a bucket of water and a towel draped over his arm ready to wash feet. He walked over to one of the seated people, kneeled down to ...
To be an advent prophet for Jesus is to speak up. No good advent prophet keeps silent. Silence is antithetical to being a messenger. Think of the angels. When they show up in Bible stories, they speak. They announce. They are heralds of the good news of God. Prophets are the same. ...
Two common factors in these stories I notice is that it took looking to God and that each person had at least one other person that believed in them. It was a person that God used all ten of their fingers to lift the broken person up, speak truth to them, and say you can do this...
Raphael, Christ's Charge to St. Peter 2. A Difference of Perspective Ancient testimony agrees that Matthew wrote the first Gospel account in the Hebrew language[1]. This premise strongly infers that Matthew’s Gospel was written when the church was still primarily comprised of converted Jews, ...