The Last Seder of James represents a unique blend of historical fiction and educational non-fiction. Taken as a whole, The Last Seder of James provides an insightful perspective on the centrality of the Jewish festival of Passover to the Messianic (Christian) faith tradition.
Days of Fire: The Feast of Tabernacles and the Fall of the Temple represents a unique blend of historical fiction and educational non-fiction. Taken as a whole, the book provides an insightful perspective on the powerful significance of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles (In Hebrew, Sukkot) to the Messianic (Christian) faith.
A Feast of Weeks represents a unique blend of historical fiction and educational non-fiction. Presented as a personal memoir, this second book of the Passover Trilogy provides an insightful perspective on the role of Pentecost (or in Hebrew, Shavu’ot) in the early days of the Messianic faith.
This three-part work by Dr. Lon A. Wiksell and his son Ryan Wiksell follows a sweeping arc through the events (both real and imagined) of the First-Century Church. Observe Passover with John and James, Pentecost with Priscilla and Aquila, and the Feast of Tabernacles with these and many other dynamic characters.
Purified garments. Fire. A thunderous sound from heaven. We listened to the Scriptures, and in that moment we knew we were about to be “clothed in power from on high,” but we were terrified to imagine what it might mean.
The trumpet, throughout history, has been a very popular instrument. Although it’s changed forms multiple times—from animal antlers to heraldic horns to the modern three-valve contraption—every stage of civilization has found an important role for it. That is, until now.
How you do you know when a holiday is coming? For the Fourth of July, it’s when you see Fireworks stores popping up in the beginning of May. For Halloween, it’s when the grocery store converts three aisles to candy sales on the Fifth of July. For Thanksgiving, it’s when everyone is talking about Black Friday. So the signs are there. But when the day comes, do you really feel ready?
Materialists claim that spirit doesn’t exist at all. Dualists believe that both exist, but that the spirit world is wholly separate from and superior to the physical world. God, on the other hand, shows us a third way, by embedding every act of divine redemption in a physical matrix: real people, real times, real places.
Are you a spiritual person? If you’re not sure, ask yourself if you’ve ever said or thought things like this…
It takes some effort to get our minds around the true form of Yeshua in the book of Revelation. In the first few chapters he appears as a “Son of Man” (that is, a human) with a white robe, a golden sash, bronze feet, and a voice like Niagara Falls. But when this visage disappears, we are led to assume that he will appear next as a lion—the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, to be exact (5:5). But no, his next entrance is far more diminutive: a “Lamb who was slain” limping to the throne of heaven.