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Genesis Series
Teaching of the Sages
Jesus' Jewish Teachings
Exodus Series
Our Great Redemption
Greater Story of Exodus
Longing For Moses
Enslaving Themselves
Measure for Measure
Set Free to Serve
Heroines In Egypt
Getting to Know Moses
Known By What I Do
Bridegroom of Blood
Starting Out Small
The Finger of God
The Hardening Heart
Why All Ten Plagues?
Send Someone Else!
Plagues fr. God of Nature
Time for a Change
That You May Know
Tasting Bitterness
Blood on Doorposts
Bread Without Leaven
God Unleashed
Night of the Lord
I Do This Because ...
A Night of Watching
Bones of Joseph
Teaching of the Sages
Introduction
Like Water on a Rock
Whitening Another's Face
Stealing Another's Mind
The Dust of Gossip
Do Not Destroy
Direction of Your Heart
Beautifying Commands
The Lame and Blind Man
Orphans and Widows
Deeds of Loving Kindness
Who Is Rich?
A Light to My Path
An Ugly Vessel
Who is Strong?
Who is Wise?
Measure for Measure
A Precious Goblet
Saving a Whole World
In All Circumstances
Which Type Are You?
Just Like Yourself
An Attitude of We
Not Yours to Complete
A Hot-Tempered Teacher
Get Yourself A Friend
Sharing Our Grief
Puzzling Passages
Eternal Life
Heaping Burning Coals?
Punished for Parent's Sin
Laws for the Gentiles
The Lord Alone
Good News To The Poor
Salvation with Fear
Did Jesus Hide Message?
Why Carrying Wood?
Jesus, God's Firstborn
Jesus & Pacifism
The Gentle Eyes of Leah
Keep Us From Evil
Give to Him Who Asks
If Your Eye...
The Bride and the Lamb
An Eye for an Eye
The Meek Shall Inherit ...
The Poor in Spirit
Blessed Peacemakers
Blessed Are the Mourners
Blessed Are...
Pursuing Righteousness
In The Beginning
Beginnings
Not Quite the Beginning
In Wonder of God
Good News
Wind and Water
Eve's Error
In His Image
Learning To Read
You Must Master It
The Slippery Slope
Lamech's Opposite
What Have You Done?
Laying Down The Bow
Noah, A Righteous Man
My Brother's Keeper
Cain's Crime
Abraham
Faithful Abram
Abraham Our Father
True Sons of Abraham
Lot's Choice
In Spite of Ourselves
The God of the Covenant
How Great is Peace
Hagar's Plight
Heroic Chutzpah!
The Logic of Mercy
Laughter of Relief
The Binding of Isaac
Giving and Taking Away
Offended by God
How To Choose a Wife
Abraham Believed
Growing Faith
The Mystery of Prayer
Yielding 100 Fold
An Unlikely Choice
Reaping What You Sow
Joseph
Sons of Israel
Meeting God on the Way
Joseph's Dreams
Tamar, the Heroine
Exceptional Character
At Peace in Prison
Wisdom for Good Years
The Testing of a Family
God's Wounded Families
Storytelling / Parables
Wisdom & Assorted Topics
Messianic Expectations
Introduction
What does "Christ" Mean?
Son of David, Son of God
The Mighty One of Israel
What's the Good News?
Son of Man
The News to the Magi
Mighty God
A Rabbi and a King?
Frankincense & Myrrh?
Kings From Distant Lands
Prepare Way of the Lord
God's Great Surprise
Builder of the House
The Afflicted King
Greater Than Moses
The Great Shepherd
Bursting Out of the Pen
The Fat and Lean Sheep
God With Us
Hebrew Words
The Richness of Hebrew
Me'odecha - strength
Yadah - knowledge
Yareh - fear
Emunah - faithfulness
Beit - house
Barak - bless
Ba'ash - stench
Shema - hear and obey
Shalom - peace
Avad - to serve
Yod
Makor - source
Lechem - bread
Tov Ayin - a good eye
Nephesh - soul, life
Adonai - My Lord
Pakad - to visit
Shem - name
Kanafim - wings
Ro'eh - shepherd
Torah - law, instruction
Ben - son
Levav - heart, mind
Noseh Avon - carrying guilt
Kavanah - intention
Amen and Amen!
Chayei Olam - Eternal Life
Ahavah - Another Kind ...
Faithful Wounds
Joy of Repentence
God's Righteousness
Being Perfect
Inclined Toward God
When Anger Burns
Overtaken by God
Loving God Alone
The Dew of Unity
Righteous Paths
Long-Acting Love
You Have Heard it Said
Another Way to Steal
The Necessity of Shade
When Times are Tight
God is our Refuge
Rain From Heaven
Peace Within Your Walls
Together Fully Human
From Earth, and Yet More
Storytelling / Parables
Introduction
Why Parables?
Did Jesus Hide Meaning?
How will God Judge Us?
A Parable About Judging
A Parable for a Sukkah
The Good Samaritans
I'm Glad I'm Not Like Him!
The Coming of Jubilee
The Merciful Farmer
Coming Home Again
How Much More...
The Mustard Seed
A Little Leaven
Manager's Shrewd Idea
A Good Day's Pay
Always Ready
The Golden Table Leg
Nathan's Story
A Gift that Grows
The Other Lost Son
Wisdom
The Rabbi & the Ugly Man
The Evil Tongue
Empty Fruit
Bought With a Price
Assorted Topics
Dayeinu
Mighty One of Israel
Redemption At Passover
The Biblical Woman
Living Water
Prayer
Lessons from the Land
Jesus Among the Rabbis
Jesus' Jewish Teachings
Imitating Our Father
How Not to Pray
God's Servant Heart
Consider the Ravens
Knowing His Voice
A Strong House
Why All the Woes?
Together Again
Yes Should Mean Yes
Sons of Hell
Fulfilling the Law - 1
Fulfilling the Law - 2
The Logic of Sabbath
Aiming for Perfection
What's Mine is Mine
Eager to Please
Irony in the Extreme
Searching Shepherd
Learning from Creation
Atoning for the Nation
Having a Single Eye
Jesus' Yoke
Doing Our Duty
Truth Before and After Jesus
Who Were the Tenants?
The Weightiest Law
Honoring Others
Anger Unleashed
Motivation Not to Sin
The Joy of Repentance
The Urgent Harvest
Laying Up Treasure in Heaven
Before Coming to the Altar
Which Type Are You?
Working What You've Got
The Other Cheek
Dying to Have Life
Lessons from the Land
Living Water - Ed Visser
The Tomb of Jesus
Armageddon
Israel: The Land Between
Shepherd, Sheep & Goats
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
My Father's Business
Jesus in the Synagogue
Son of Man Betrayed
Emmaus Road
Southern Stairs
Priest's Mikveh
Pool of Siloam
Land as Fifth Gospel
John and His Baptism
A Parable of a King
Olive Tree
Caesarea Maritima
Decapolis
Sea of Galilee
Caesarea Philippi
The
Necessity Of Shade
Drink Before You're Thirsty
More to Gideon's Story
Keepers of the Word
Land of Up and Down
Encountering Herod
Shaliach Mitzvah Gelt
Who Feeds the Ravens?
Elijah, God's Strong Man
Repainting Davinci Again
Standing Stones & Christmas
The God of the City
Lessons From An Olive Tree
A Lost Psalm of Qumran
The Mountain of the LORD
Drinking Rain from Heaven
Narrow Gates & Wide Roads
God is Our Refuge
In the Synagogue
Stones of Destruction
A Neck Like a Tower
Altars of Sacrifice
Idolatry at Dan
Brightness of His Presence
The Land
Between
Living Water
Shepherds,Sheep & Goats
Living Water
Walk
on Ahead
Water from the Rock
Living Water Flowing!
Water
Will Come Out
Take
Your Staff
Did Moses
do Wrong?
The Blessing of Rain
The
River of Life
The
Refreshment of Dew
If
Anyone is Thirsty
A Drip or a Splash?
Wisdom About Water
Drink Deep
Prayer
Learning
Prayer from Jesus
Praying with
Chutzpah
What Our Prayers
Reveal
Blessing or Thanks
Even This is For the Good
Our Father
Thy Kingdom Come
Give Us Our Daily Bread
Forgive Us as We Forgive
Keep Us from Evil
Praying the Psalms
Oh Lord, be
patient with me
Prayer in Persecution
Do We Listen to
God?
Humility in Prayer
Time to Pray
The Prayers of
Children
Have Faith In God
Prayer is
the Soul's Desire
The Other Lord's
Prayer
Clothing the Naked
Giving of His
Wisdom
Praying with Intention
The Mystery of Prayer
Amen and Amen!