Believe it or not, Christians are facing situations, debates and a cultural environment that is very similar to what believers of the 1st century faced. In many ways we are reliving the 1st century. If that’s so, what can we learn from those 1st century believers? One thing about them that stands out, and which […]
It was on this day in the year 70 that Titus put battering rams in position to assault the walls and gates of Jerusalem. This tactic was employed in order to create a weak spot in the fortifications of the besieged city. Day after day, sometimes for weeks, these heavy battering rams would strike at […]
It was on this day in 1940 that the extermination camp known as Auschwitz was opened. In the course of its existence, two and a half million people would be killed there. Another 500,000 would die of starvation and disease. That totals about three million people. Think of it this way: estimates are that, when […]
Pentecost (Acts 2:1) is the Greek name for the Hebrew Festival of weeks (Exodus 34:22), which was the celebration on first fruits of the wheat harvest. This was the festival in which the Holy Spirit was poured out in Jerusalem (Acts 2:1-4) and is also considered by many the “birthday” of the Church, as the […]
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses received the first tablets of the law, written by the fiery finger of God, as in the book of Exodus: “And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, […]
Today is the day we celebrate the festival known, in Hebrew, as Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks. Most people in the western world refer to it as Pentecost because, in Greek, it is known as Pentecostus or “fiftieth” referring to the fiftieth day since we started counting the omer. Tradition believes that, on this […]
According to tradition, it was on this day that Reuben brought mandrakes to his mother, Leah. It’s recorded in Genesis 30: “Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, ‘Please give me some of your son’s […]
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses began to write the first part of the Torah, everything from the creation account until the revelation at Mt Sinai. If that is true, that’s a lot of writing to do in just a matter of a few days, not to mention the revela-tion that […]
It was on this day that Moses acknowledged that the people had affirmed their desire to hear and to do all that the Lord would instruct them: “So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me, all […]
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses ascended Mt. Sinai for the very first time. On this initial ascent up to the mountain, God told Moses to speak to the chil-dren of Israel and say: “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings […]
