Restore! Magazine Volume 4 Issue 3

In This Issue...

CONTOURS OF HEBREW THOUGHT - by Marvin R. Wilson, Ph.D.
Christianity does not derive from pagan, Hellenistic sources or from speculative worldviews.

FOUR PROPHETIC RECONCILIATIONS - by Howard Morgan, D.Min.
The coming of Messiah is the great promise of the Bible from both Old and New Testatments. For millennia, Jews have diligently prayed for the coming of their Messiah.

PRAYER LESSONS FROM JEWISH CULTURE - Karl D. Coke, PH.D.
There are many features of prayer in the Jewish culture from which Christians can draw valuable insights that can make their own prayer life more complete and effective.

CHRISTIAN REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST - by Rev. Isaac C. Rottenberg
They Just Don't Get it! Many church members do indeed know that Hitler was a madman who hated Jews, the problem is that the Holocaust is isolated from Christian history.

ARE YOU GUARDING YOUR GATES? by Clarence H. Wagner, Jr.
In ancient times, the city gate was the busines place in the city. Prophets and priests delivered admonitions and pronouncements at the gates.

JUDAISM–A BASIS FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY - by Frederick M. Schweitzer, PH.D.
That Judaism is the common denominator of all Christian bodies is an idea stated most memorably by Karl Barth in Church Dogmatics, where he writes that the "Church must live wth the synagogue, not..(merely) as with another religion or denomination, but as with the root from which it has itself sprung."

THE EARLY CHRISTIAN MEAL - A JEWISH TRADITION - y Douglas A. Wheeler, PH.D., TH.D.
The manner in which first-century Christians shared their meals was part of a rich Jewish cultural tradition that has by and large been lost to modern Christianity.

THE SOUNDING OF THE SHOFAR - by Rabbi Chaim Richman
Regarding the holiday of Rosh HaShana, G-d commands us: "And in the seventh month, the first day of the month shall be a sacred holiday to you when you may not do any mundane work. It shall be a day of sounding the horn".

WE ARE YOU AND YOU ARE WE by Rev. Leon Mohammed
With the ever-increasing tragedies of strife and violence in the world, there is a growing need for the promotion of understanding and good will among men.

PATTERNS AND PRINCIPLES OF JEWISH PRAYER - by Dwight A. Pryor
Prayer should be at the very heart of a disciple's life.  I am convinced that studying the patterns and principles of Jewish prayer can help us as Christians to pray more effectively and earnestly.

RESTORING THE CHURCH’S BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS by John D. Garr, PH.D.
Upon This Rock!  When Jesus asked his disciples who they undrestood him to be, Peter's effusive answere encapsulated the most profund truth in Holy Scripture, "You are He, the Messiah, Son of hte living God!"