<COLOR color="navy">Palm Sunday Thoughts If you've ever watched a movie about ancient or medieval times where a king was involved, you know that trumpets were used to herald the entrance of t...

What IS a shofar, anyhow?? I'm glad you asked! Your basic shofar is really and truly the horn of a ram. That's the kind of J-shaped horn, not the American mountain goat curly-q ram that many think ...

<QUOTE author="sknoerr,Aug 22 2007, 06:57 PM">sknoerr,Aug 22 2007, 06:57 PM Wrote:I would like some input as to shofars in a personal setting... Well, what a good question. The general applicati...

Psalm 100 & The Shofar Our psalm for today's service was actually my very first experience with the Psalms when I was a child. That simple set of verses impacted my little heathen heart even th...

Why do you sometimes blow the shofar while covering yourself up in that prayer shawl? Great question! Part of the ministry that Helena and I have been given is to remind the church of her Jewish r...

The first trumpet in the Revelation <QUOTE author="Revelation 1:10">Revelation 1:10 Wrote:In the Spirit I found myself present on the day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a loud voice which ...

Why do you blow that really long blast anyhow? I’m glad you asked! I have a treasure for you this morning. In Joshua 6:5, in the middle of the story of the march around Jericho, where God is instru...

aaa-WAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!! One of my favorite verses is I Peter 2:9, but I’d not thought about it in terms of being a "shofar verse" before, but there it is! What do people normally do at night? They ...

There seem to be different parts to your trumpet call… Yes, there are. I want to talk particularly about two parts today. We talked before about the alarm or teruah. Today, two more parts, two more...

Why do you sometimes turn all the way around while playing that last, very long note? I was taught that it is a tradition in some Jewish and Messianic circles, but it seems to have a pretty good f...

I do appreciate my loyal honey's impressions of my shofar efforts. Part of it is the horn. The examples are done on a fairly short ram's horn. The blasts from the yemenite style, the great curly ones ...

Sound the alarm on my holy mountain… In the middle of the shofar call that I usually use, there is a series of at least 9 short, fast notes all strung together. In Hebrew, this is called the teruah...

There are three basic sounds and one variation on the theme. <URL url="http://www.zionfire.com/FTP-Sounds/tekiah.au">Tekiah (aaaWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!) <URL url="http://www.zionf...

Recognizing, so we can respond Last week, we talked about making or hearing unsure sounds on the trumpet. Remember the TV show, M.A.S.H.? Remember Corporal Radar O’Reilly and his bugle blowing? [Lo...

...God...Who has commanded us to hear (and understand) the shofar’s blast We talked a little about the masses of Israel in the wilderness hearing and obeying the shofar’s call. I want to bring you ...

Why blow the shofar? Well, mostly because God said so! What were the trumpet blasts used for? They were used to signal the children of Israel--signals for time to worship, time to move out, time t...

I was asked to begin our congregation’s services with a shofar blast. I asked if I could start with a quick little “nugget” before actually blowing, so that our people could begin to develop an unders...

And your concern reminds me of another couple of large folks. First, I'm a pretty large man. I can move fairly well, though certainly not a dancer. I could be very self-conscious if it were not for...

Interesting! Do you know a Richard Padfield from Springfield? Your dad married him to Caroline in like 1997. I spoke to him several times during that time frame. It was early in our time here in KC...

Hmmmmm. And didn't he end up in or near Springfield, Missouri??? Same David Lewis? And maybe a son who more or less picked up where David was as he retired?? How'm I doing??

<QUOTE author="happysandyh,Sep 25 2006, 04:48 PM">happysandyh,Sep 25 2006, 04:48 PM Wrote:My dad held meetings for him years ago when he was pastoring in Ohio. So, does that mean that you have t...

We were blessed to be the first folks from his previous pastorate in the US to stay with them in Israel. What a joy that was. So maybe our paths crossed without even knowing it! He was pastor of a ...

I absolutely LOVE the cyber-dance team shown in the original post. What a HOOT! Helena has almost as much fun finding smilies as she does in worshiping our Lord. I'm curious to find out how many fo...

Yep, that's him. Great guy, personal friend. He was also our pastor for 10 minutes once. Story later!

Yes, actually, I know them well. We've had other friends who've spent short stints working with them, living in the land. We also have a former pastor who is now the NW US Rep for them, and another go...