Tonight begins the week-long festival of Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles). This is a festival of praise, joy, and celebration with themes including God providing for his children in the wilderness, God dwelling with us, and for Believers, the birth of Yeshua. It’s closely follows the more somber and introspective holidays of the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), the Ten Days of Awe, and Yom…
Category: Messianic Interest
The Lord Establishes Our Steps
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. Proverbs 16:9 Many of you all know that deep in Mark and my heart has always been the desire to build a healthy, vibrant, Messianic community here in the Boise area. In that vein, we built a website to get our name out, hoping that others would find us who were also…
Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – they are the High Holy Days of the Jewish year. But what is their significance for Christians? Do these holidays still hold meaning and power for those of us who either aren’t Jewish or are Jewish Believers? If you know me, you know that my answer is obvious. Yes! But why? Why do we, as Christians (or Messianic Believers)…
Celebrating Our Messiah’s Resurrection
This week our family has been celebrating Passover, and it’s been a lovely week! It started out with us hosting our first community Passover Seder on the first evening of Passover. Next, we celebrated our oldest’s 7th birthday, and we will celebrating Yeshua’s resurrection on Sunday. With the festive nature and significance of the holidays of this week I felt inspired to write a little more…
New Year, New Beginning: The Next Season of Growth and Change For Us…
As we get ready to embark on a new year, we are also gearing up for a new adventure in the Rich family! For the past few months, Mark and I have been praying about forming a congregation here in the Boise area. We have become aware of a deep need for Biblically-solid Messianic teaching here and have felt led to take a step forward…
Hanukkah – Why do we celebrate?
We celebrate Hanukkah. And we’ve received our share of questions as to why we choose to celebrate this holiday. Unlike most of the holidays we celebrate, Hanukkah was not designed by God himself. It is usually seen as only a Jewish holiday, as it revolves around a critical piece of Jewish history. So, let me share a few reasons why we find value in celebrating…
Our Family’s Sabbath
Today is the Sabbath – the seventh day of the week. We usually refer to it as Shabbat, the Hebrew word for Sabbath. Sabbath/Shabbat means “rest” or “cessation.” Sabbath-keeping has been a big part of our lives since we began walking down this path of Messianic observance almost 8 years ago. We have discovered such beauty in the Sabbath! This morning, Mark and I had…
Happy Rosh Hashanah!
I love Rosh Hashanah. It’s the beginning of the new year, the celebration of new beginnings. It’s the start of the Ten Days of Awe, a time of introspection, repentance and forgiveness. And it’s a celebration of the kingship of our Messiah Yeshua! Biblically, Rosh Hashanah is called Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets. The only details that HaShem gives us for how we celebrate…
Grace and Law – Opposites or Complements?
I saw a post on Facebook last night that caught my eye. It was a quote that basically pitted law and grace against each other, showing just how awful law is and how wonderful grace is. It broke my heart. God wrote those words of “law” for His people whom He loves with an everlasting love, and who He chose to have a relationship with. …
On the Doorposts
Yesterday morning, our family put up our mezuzah. We have had a mezuzah on our front door for several years now, and while I’m used to seeing it, it’s impact on me has never faded. The mezuzah is a small, thin case that holds a tiny scroll of scripture with two passages written on it – Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21. These passages contain the Shema…