Tag Archives: D Thomas Lancaster
The Sabbath Breaker: A Book Review
Once it happened that the Master and his disciples walked in the holy city of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day when they encountered a man blind from birth. Our Master spat on the ground, made clay of the spittle, and … Continue reading
Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Struggling with the Nemesis
The fact that experienced readers of the New Testament come away with diametrically opposed interpretations of the same text is today perhaps one of the few universally recognized results of modern historical critical scholarship. -Joel Willitts “Chapter 23: The Bride … Continue reading
Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Fulfilling the Prophesy of Amos, Part 2
When this group of Gentiles believed in Jesus, they immediately received the Holy Spirit in so evident a way that Peter could only conclude that God had extended salvation to them as Gentiles, not requiring that they first become Jews. … Continue reading
Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Fulfilling the Prophesy of Amos, Part 1
The most momentous decision the early Christian movement had to make was on the status of Gentiles who wished to join it. That Gentiles should join the movement was not in itself problematic, since there was a widespread Jewish expectation, … Continue reading
The Unsimple Truth
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. -attributed to Albert Einstein According to Rashi, the question is directed against Rav Yirmiyah who had said that the basket in the tree does not actually have to … Continue reading
Lancaster’s Galatians: Sermon Four, Wind and Sail
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness… -2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV) Is given by inspiration of God – All this is expressed in the original by one … Continue reading
Lancaster’s Galatians: Sermon Three, Paul’s Gospel, and the Unfair Election
For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel. For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation … Continue reading
Lancaster’s Galatians: Sermon Two, Influencers, Circumcision, and What is Torah?
No word in the Jewish religion is so indefinable and yet so indispensable as the word Torah. Torah is the most comprehensive term for the substance of Judaism. Torah is Teaching. Torah is Law. No one can hope to achieve … Continue reading
Four Questions, Part 3
This is a continuation on the topic I started discussing in Lancaster’s Galatians: Introduction, Audience, and What Happened to the Torah? and continued in Broad Strokes. I asked the first two of these four questions in Part 1 and Part … Continue reading
Four Questions, Part 2
This is a continuation on the topic I started discussing in Lancaster’s Galatians: Introduction, Audience, and What Happened to the Torah? and continued in Broad Strokes. I asked the first of these four questions in Part 1 of this series … Continue reading
