FUTURE
HOPE
 Everywhere
you turn, people are wondering about the future and the end
of the world as we know it. While conversations of doom and
gloom are pervasive, what Christians have to offer is a message
of a future and a hope. Future Hope by David Brickner, executive
director of Jews for Jesus, is written in an easy to understand
format and offers insights into the Bible prophecies. The
book also includes helpful charts and appendices. This latest
release from Jews for Jesus is already in its third printing.
Great for unbelieving friends too!
"From
his unique perspective as a Jewish Christian, David Brickner
lucidly explains how the Master Dramatist plans to work out
his great purposes." Vernon Grounds, president emeritus,
Denver Seminary
"People
who are in a muddle over end-time prophesy will be greatly
relieved to read this informative entertaining and very complete
explanation of the subject." Zola Levitt, national television
host
Chapters
Include:
You think you've got problems?: What is the Great Tribulation?;
The mother of all wars: What is the Battle of Armageddon?;
Eternity: What about Heaven and Hell?
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MISHPOCHAH
MATTERS
 This
book is a series of modern-day epistles from the executive
director of Jews for Jesus. It provides practical, insightful
biblical truths from a Jewish Christian perspective. In each
inspiring chapter, from Walking through the Seasons of Life
to Walking Through (Not Around) Tough Issues, you'll be encouraged
to more fully claim the inheritance that is yours in Y'shua
(Jesus). So come, beloved mishpochah...pull up a chair and
join us in a celebration of God's family!
"Informed,
inspired, balanced and focused, Brickner understands what
it means to be a Jewish disciple of the Lord today." Stan
Telchin, noted author.
Chapters
Include:
Are you called?; Shepherds and Sheep; Symbols and Substance;
We want Messiah now!
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Book
Review by: Elizabeth A. Brisby Escondido, CA
"Mishpochah Matters" addresses particular concerns faced by
Jewish believers in Y'shua. Part One, "Walking with God,"
answers a universal question: How can I know God's voice?
Brickner continues this part by examining how walking with
God will always challenge believers to choose between the
high or the low road. Carrying the cross daily, he writes,
can often weigh upon us, but the journey will fill us with
wonder as we watch God use circumstances to make us more like
Y'shua.
Part
Two, "Walking with God's Family," tackles some of the Church's
thorniest issues. Here, Brickner gives advice to Jewish believers
who feel alienated in largely Gentile congregations and discusses
Jews for Jesus' stand on Messianic congregations. He confronts
prejudice in both Gentiles and Jews and challenges Jewish
believers to be positive, unifying influences wherever they
choose to worship. Then he contrasts good and bad shepherds
and tells readers from his own point of view as a minister
how they can build up their own shepherd."
Walking
through the Seasons of Life," Part Four, is valuable for the
information that it contains on topics not widely treated.
Almost everyone, Brickner writes, figures the cost of a wedding
and reception before the fact, but how many count the cost
of the relationship choice? Failure to count that cost as
well trivializes the commitment, he wisely states. He goes
on to discuss singleness as an option that believers should
affirm. After discussing mixed marriages, he gives a helpful
guiding principle for making relationship decisions. Next,
he discusses aging. Knowing what the Bible says about growing
old can help during this season of life, especially for believing
children of unbelieving parents. Finally, Brickner deals with
a topic that is probably the least discussed in this country:
death. He challenges believers to confront their own mortality
and make good use of time. He also talks about ways to make
grief productive and even suggests how believers can use a
funeral, their own or a family member's, as an opportunity
to share their faith in Y'shua in a sensitive yet honest manner.
"Mishpochah
Matters," Part Four, "Walking through (Not Around) Tough Issues,"
prompts believers to think deeply about issues so that they
will not confuse symbol and substance, resulting in heresy.
This part discusses what true miracles are, whether miracles
can produce faith, and why we do not see more miracles today.
Brickner encourages a healthy skepticism. "Truth is never
threatened by honest questioning," he writes. Brickner concludes
Part Four with a discussion of Messiah's return and whether
it could happen at any time or whether certain conditions
must first be met. He closes his book with an afterword to
Gentile believers in which he appeals to them to conduct evangelism
in the biblical manner, by going to the Jew first.
COMING
SOON
 The
Feast of Tabernacles is arguably the most important of all
the Feasts of the Lord given to Israel. It is the final festival
in the cycle of seven holy days mentioned in Leviticus 23.
It holds a prominent position as the culmination of calendar
events in the sacred year. The Feast sheds a great deal of
light on what God wanted for Israel; the Jewish people to
understand about his character, about what true worship of
God really means for the believer, and what it should accomplish
in our lives.
The
Feast of Tabernacles has a great deal to teach us about God's
plan of redemption. The God of Israel painted in the pages
of scripture and wove throughout the festival his great plan
for redemption, which is focused and fulfilled in the person
of Jesus. The Feast of Tabernacles is at it's very core a
prophetic festival, one that gives us great insight into what
the future holds concerning the coming of the Lord as well
as what the Kingdom of Heaven will be like.
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