by Sue | Nov 24, 2019 | Faith
“I believe I’m supposed to share this,” Joanne told me. I smiled at my friend. She is a woman who weathered the premature death of her beloved husband, cared for her father and mother for years, and recently cried at her son’s memorial service. To look at her, you...
by Sue | Oct 27, 2019 | Faith
I remember his smile. It was soft and gentle, his joy quietly spilling over everyone and everything around him. He was a man of deep faith. He struggled in his later years after a fall injured his cervical spine. As the neurologist watched him walk about in his...
by Sue | Oct 6, 2019 | Faith
History is clear. Jesus was Jewish. He was the perfect, complete Jew who followed, not a legalistic Pharisaical list of rules, but the Father’s intentions for his sacred laws. Jesus went to the heart of matters. Yet, even while he infuriated Jewish leaders, he never...
by Sue | Sep 9, 2019 | Faith
Living According to the Bible’s Instructions When Daniel was a prisoner in King Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish think-tank, he refused to defile himself by eating delicacies from the King’s table. Instead, he and his fellow brain-trust prisoners convinced the...
by Sue | Aug 18, 2019 | Faith
If he knew I refer to him as “Good Neighbor Dave,” he would snort and shake his head. Yet he’s always there to help with a smile and willing hands. We’re the same age, Dave and I, and beginning to acquire those aches, pains, and assorted symptoms that force us to...
by Sue | Jul 21, 2019 | Faith
When my editor asked me to write about the Kol Nidre service (held the evening of the holy day of Yom Kippur) at a local Messianic Jewish congregation, I had no idea what to expect. Until then, I thought most Jews did not believe Jesus was the Messiah....
