Author: Clifford Denton

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Forty-One.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Pinchas: Numbers 25:10-29:40. 27th July 2024/21 Tammuz. On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls; you shall not do any work. (Numbers 29:7) Picture by Helen McNeill Coming to what will seem like wilderness days in today’s world, we will do well to consider […]

  • Shabbat celebration at No 10.

    New British PM Sir Keir Starmer’s family keep Jewish traditions. by Charles Gardner. Following the Labour landside in the British General Election, the nation long responsible for spreading the gospel across the world is having to get used to a new Prime Minister who doesn’t believe in God. Sir Keir Starmer, a lawyer who is […]

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Forty.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Balak: Numbers 22:2-25:9. 20th July 2024/14 Tammuz. I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Sceptre shall rise out of Israel. (Numbers 24:17) Picture by Helen McNeill The spiritual power to bless or to curse is shown through the Torah portion […]

  • Our debt to the Jews.

    Gentile Christians support Messianic and Arab believers in Israel. by Charles Gardner. What particularly spurred me on to volunteer for Jewish mission following my retirement in 2013 was a video of a Jerusalem conference where Jew and Arab met as brothers reconciled through the cross of Christ. Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, dominated by the Islamic […]

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-Nine.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Chukat: Numbers 19:1- 22:1. 13th July 2024/7 Tammuz. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived. (Numbers 21:9) Picture by Helen McNeill In this week’s portion we read about the […]

  • From Netivyah, Jerusalem

    by Joseph Shulam. The readings from the Torah are the portion, Chukat from Numbers 19:1-22:1. From the prophets, the reading is Judges 11:1-33. From the New Testament, John 2:1-12.   The Jerusalem Prayer List history didn’t start with Joseph Shulam!  It began in the late 1930s with an Orthodox Jew who accepted Yeshua as his messiah and savior,  Moshe Emmanuel Ben-Maier.  Moshe was […]

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-Eight.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Korach: Numbers 16:1- 18:32. 6th July 2024/30 Sivan. Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, and behold, the rod of Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds. (Numbers 17:8) Picture by […]

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-Seven.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Shelach Lecha: Numbers 13:1-15:41. 29th June 2024/23 Sivan. Then they came to the Valley of Eshcol, and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole …… There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and […]

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-Six.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Beha’Alotcha: Numbers 8:1-12:16. 22nd June 2024/16 Sivan. Speak to Aaron, and say to him, ‘When you arrange the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.’ (Numbers 8:2) Picture by Helen McNeill This week’s portion reveals how far the earthly life of God’s people sometimes is from the perfection of […]

  • Resurrection hope.

    How calamity is followed by redemption in God’s calendar. by Charles Gardner. I was greatly shocked to hear of Yolanda Diaz, a Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, ending a speech on the Gaza War with the genocidal slogan “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea”.1 This of course is the Hamas chant that […]