Beware the “Religion Swap”

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Kevin in The Gentile Chronicles.

Q: Shalom Kevin. I have been raised as a Gentile Christian my whole life, but within the last year or so, I have been experiencing an ever-increasing draw towards the Messianic Jewish community. The Gentile Churches make me want to vomit and mourn; as they are straying farther and farther from Yeshua. My whole family [...]

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Can DNA Testing Tell Me If I’m Jewish?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Kevin in Jewish Identity.

This article was originally posted as a response to a comment on the post “Am I Really a Gentile?” The tricky thing about DNA testing is that, like any kind of medical testing, interpretation of the results is not an exact science. Have you ever had a medical diagnostic procedure performed, then read the pathologist’s [...]

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Oh, Stop! It’s Simply Shabbat…

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Kevin in "Holidays" & "Feasts".

The seventh-day Shabbat (Sabbath) is not only central to Israel’s calendar, it is at the heart of Jewish identity. Exodus 31:13 reports Adonai commanding Moshe to “speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Surely, My Shabbats you must guard, for it is a sign between Me and you, to your generations, to know that I, [...]

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