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The first covenant was typical and shadowy. It was but a school lesson for children. Just as we give to our boys models of churches or models of ships, so was the ceremonial law a model of good things to come, but it did not contain the things themselves. Christ is no surety of a mere model or pattern…

As Abraham was less than Melchizedek, for without doubt the less is blessed of the greater, so also Levi was less than Melchizedek, for he was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him. As Levi was in the loins of Abraham and paid tithes to Melchizedek, so we were in the loins of Christ and paid…

The strange customs of early covenant agreements are fulfilled completely and sufficiently through Jesus Christ centuries later! Who could have conceived of such a grace-filled God?

A 30 year-old Taiwanese woman says she is looking forward to getting married. She has posed for pictures in a flowing white dress, enlisted a planner, rented a hall, and sent invitations to 30 of her closest friends. The only thing missing at the wedding will be the groom, because Chen Wei-yih is getting…

Lambeth Daily Plenary Monday 28th July Posted On : July 29, 2008 4:57 PM | Posted By : Webmaster Related Categories: News The Relationship between the People and God. Lambeth Conference 28th July 2008 Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks. Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth Friends…

When my mum married my father… she forsook her parents’ name. Her new name reflected her changed status, priorities, life. That ceremony was a turning point for her – Everything changed. She got a new Identity. In fact, can you imagine if her lifestyle hadn’t changed after that? If she’d carried on living…

Atonement Evite, the self-described "world's leading FREE online invitation service," made Business 2.0's (www.business2.com) top ten list in their fourth annual, "101 Dumbest Moments in Business," for calling Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, a "reason to party." http://accounting.smartpros.com/x42419.xml…

God's Autograph in the Sky Have you ever watched children build a "castle" out of Lego blocks? They don't develop architectural drawings or do structural analysis, instead, they just start sticking blocks together. On rare occasions, they cooperate, usually the play time ends when one child gets frustrated…

The Abrahamic Covenant (Part 1) - by Dr. Renald Showers Two major systems of theology (Dispensational Theology and Covenant Theology) often differ from each other in their approaches to the major biblical covenants. These differences are significant, because they lead to contrasting views concerning…

“In modern times we define a host of relations by contracts. These are usually for goods or services and for hard cash. The contract, formal or informal, helps to specify failure in these relationships. The Lord did not establish a contract with Israel or with the church. He created a covenant. There…

Chayei Sarah “Sarah’s Life” 3 November 2007 / 22 Cheshvan 5768 *- KEREN HANNAH PRYOR - Readings: Genesis/B’reisheet 23:1 – 25:18; 1 Kings 1:1-31; Philippians 2:5-11 The parasha opens with an unusual breakdown of Sarah’s life: 100 years, 20 years and 7 years. In reverse this represents three phases of…

\\ Remembering the past is critical to our survival and to our identity as persons and as a people. This was brought home to me again while reading the book Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. He tells the story of the first Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth, the community they developed and the Indian wars…

ILLUSTRATION: Grace, Salvation David Jeremiah points out that in the 1980s, the Smith-Barney brokerage firm made a series of commercials in which distinguished actor John Houseman spoke the famous line, "We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it!" Sometime later, based on that commercial, a Christian…