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Drive Time Friday
"Sedition Just Ain't What it Used to Be"
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – Ezekiel ch 36
This week the teachers explore Ezekiel chapter 36.
Now Is The Time with Rabbi Steve Berkson | Are You Saved? | Part 14
There is a particular blessing for those who read, hear and guard the words in book of Revelation. (Rev 1:3) Knowing this, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us this week into Revelation chapters 2 and 3 where we see the apostle John write messages to seven assemblies as...
Mark Call – Parsha “Naso” and Shavuot teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
Parsha Naso (Numbers 4:21 through all of chapter 7) is on the agenda for this week's Torah portion, but after the Sabbath this week is the 50th day of the counting of the Omer, and thus the day of Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks. The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha...
Drive Time Friday
What does the "Great Falling Away" prophesied in Scripture look like? Are we there yet? David Justice and Mark Call discuss some of the major news events of the week, the collapse and meltdown still in-progress, and how some of the judgments that may be on the near...
Now Is The Time with Rabbi Steve Berkson | Are You Saved? | Part 13
Continuing on the topic of “you’re going to be judged according to your works”, Rabbi Steve Berkson reviews and reiterates 1 Peter chapters 1 and 2, adding even more insight and revelation to the words of the Apostle Peter (Kepha). If your relationship with your...
Mark Call – Parsha “Bemidbar” teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
This week the annual Torah cycle reading begins the third Book in the Torah of Moshe. Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at parsha "Behmidbar" (Numbers/Bemidbar 1:1 through 4:20), The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha begins B'midbar...
Now Is The Time with Rabbi Steve Berkson | Are You Saved? | Part 12
Why are your actions or “works” important? Rabbi Steve Berkson continues teaching about the relationship between salvation, faith/belief and works/actions by taking us to the letter from Peter, an emissary/apostle of Messiah Yeshua, to the chosen, and dissects what he...
Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 65 (No Place for Chickens Part Two)
Prayer makes you think.
For instance, who was better prepared for what happened after midnight in the Garden of Gethsemane, Yeshua or his disciples? Why?
Apparently, Peter needed to go to bed with the chickens, and by the time the cock crowed three times the next morning, he’d denied Yeshua and run away. Just hours before, Peter didn’t imagine such a thing were possible.
An often-quoted proverb helps us to understand the inner process of prayer:
“As a man thinks within himself [b’nafsho], so is he…” (Pr 23:7)
“B’nafsho” is “in his soul.” The soul is defined as a bundle of appetites, emotions, desires, and intellect. The soul thinks. We don’t usually hear the beginning or the end of the proverb, though. The beginning of the proverb is:
“Do not eat the bread of a selfish man or desire his delicacies…”
The rest of the verse is:
“…he says to you, ‘Eat and drink!’ But his heart [lev] is not with you.”
The heart is sometimes seen as the mind, interconnected with the soul. Even scientists understand there is a “heart brain” that communicates with the head brain. In context, the proverb warns us that in spite of the generous words he says, a selfish person’s silent soul and heart think the opposite and wish that you would not accept.
The connection between prayer and the proverb is that it is possible to pray one thing with the lips, yet not to really believe it or want it to come to pass. It is possible to pray one thing and think the opposite. Yeshua struggled in this like we do, yet he prayed the perfect solution in the Garden of Gethsemane:
“Nevertheless, not my will, but Yours be done.”
Mark Call – Double Parsha “Behar/Bechukotai” teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa
This was either the week where average Americans began to awaken to the fact that what was once their country has been successfully invaded, or that it was in fact, conquered long ago. And it is also the week where the regular Torah portion gives us a stunning...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – Ezekiel ch 35
This week the Torah Teachers explore Ezekiel chapter 35. Notes: From Ken's comment on the Greater Exodus - Jeremiah 16:14-15
Now Is The Time with Rabbi Steve Berkson | Are You Saved? | Part 11
Contrary to the vast majority of those who twist the writings (2 Peter 3:16) and teach that “works” are no longer important or necessary, Rabbi Steve Berkson brings us to the understanding of why “works” are important. Take advantage of new teachings every week. To...