Today is day 38 of counting the OmerToday is day 38 out of EgyptToday is day 38 of Messiah Resurrected Oh Yes You Can! (Jeremiah 1:1-19)The Call of Jeremiah1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the kohanim who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.2 The word of Adonai came to him during the days of King Josiah of Judah, son of Amon, in the thirteenth year of his reign.3 It continued du...  Read More

Today is day 37 of counting the OmerToday is day 37 out of EgyptToday is day 37 of Messiah Resurrected The Joy of Renewal (And Smashing Idols) (2 Chronicles 30:23-31:1)23 Then the whole congregation decided to celebrate seven more days—so for another seven days they celebrated with gladness.24 Hezekiah king of Judah contributed 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep to the congregation, and the officials con...  Read More

Today is day 36 of counting the OmerToday is day 36 out of EgyptToday is day 36 of Messiah ResurrectedGod-Developed Leaders (1 Peter 5:1-6)Shepherds Lead by Example1 Therefore I appeal to the elders among you—as a fellow elder and witness of Messiah’s sufferings, and a partaker also of the glory about to be revealed—2 shepherd God’s flock among you. Watch over it not under compulsion but willingly...  Read More

Today is day 35 of counting the OmerToday is day 35 out of EgyptToday is day 35 of Messiah ResurrectedCHAZAK (Be Strong) (Daniel 10:1-21)1 In the third year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar. The oracle was true and concerns a great war. He understood the message and gained insight through a vision.2 “In those days, I, Daniel was mourning ...  Read More

Today is day 34 of counting the OmerToday is day 34 out of EgyptToday is day 34 of Messiah ResurrectedLet Him Do It! (Exodus 10:1-29)Locusts, Darkness1 Then Adonai said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, because I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, so that I might show these My signs in their midst,
2 and so you may tell your son and your grandchildren what I have done in Egypt, as well...  Read More

Today is day 33 of counting the OmerToday is day 33 out of EgyptToday is day 33 of Messiah ResurrectedBetter Than TED (1 Timothy 3:1-13)Qualifications for Oversight and Service1 Trustworthy is the saying: “If any man aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.”2 An overseer, then, must be beyond criticism—the husband of one wife, clear-minded, self- controlled, respectable, hospitab...  Read More

Today is day 32 of counting the OmerToday is day 32 out of EgyptToday is day 32 of Messiah ResurrectedGod’s Mercy at Work (Genesis 7:11-23)11 In the six-hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day, all the water sources of the great deep burst open, and the windows of the sky were opened.12 Then there was rain upon the land 40 days and 40 ni...  Read More

Today is day 31 of counting the OmerToday is day 31 out of EgyptToday is day 31 of Messiah ResurrectedIncrease by Decreasing (John 3:25-36)25 Now an argument came up between John’s disciples and a Judean concerning purification. 26 They came to John and said, “Rabbi, the One who was with you beyond the Jordan, the One you testified about—look, He is immersing, and all are coming to Him!”27 John an...  Read More

Today is day 30 of counting the OmerToday is day 30 out of EgyptToday is day 30 of Messiah ResurrectedSmooth Sailing (Exodus 16:1-4)1 They journeyed on from Elim, and the entire community of Bnei-Yisrael came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after leaving the land of Egypt.2 But the whole congregation of Bnei-Yisrael murmured again...  Read More

Today is day 29 of counting the OmerToday is day 29 out of EgyptToday is day 29 of Messiah ResurrectedEveryone Belongs in the Family of God (Acts 10:1-48)The Centurion’s Vision1 Now in Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Cohort.2 He was a devout man, revering God with all his household. He gave tzedakah generously to the people and prayed to God con...  Read More

Today is day 28 of counting the OmerToday is day 28 out of EgyptToday is day 28 of Messiah ResurrectedThe Catalyst (Luke 8:4-15)5 “The sower went out to spread his seed. As he sowed, some fell beside the road and was trampled; and the birds of the air ate it up.6 And other seed fell on rock; when it came up, that seed withered away because it had no moisture.7 Other seed fell among the thorns, and...  Read More

Today is day 27 of counting the OmerToday is day 27 out of EgyptToday is day 27 of Messiah ResurrectedBetter Than Sci-Fi (Revelation 4:1-11)The Heavenly Throne of Adonai1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door was standing open in heaven. And the first voice, which I had heard speaking with me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things...  Read More