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In an effort to expand our outreach to the masses who are searching for and needing Messianic instruction, we are now offering online Bible studies, delivered by TNN Online editor J.K. McKee. Every Wednesday a new teaching which deals with pertinent topics for today’s Messianic Believers will be presented. For the most part, these studies will be focusing on specific books of the Bible, but may from time to time deal with critical subjects as well.
The online Bible studies are all pre-recorded and quite easy to access as MP3 files. This is much easier than having to log in at a preset time into PalTalk. These MP3 files can be listened to from your computer, or downloaded to an MP3 player or compatible CD player. Pray with us.
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FEBRUARY 2015
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 Dear Friends:
For the past month, my attention has been focused on two principal projects, the work of which has tended to remain fairly consistent.
In mid-January, we started the 1 Corinthians Bible study, which as to my knowledge will be the first ever, complete verse-by-verse study, on 1 Corinthians from a Messianic perspective. I try not to be annoyed with complicated passages and issues never having been addressed, in detail, by various people in our faith community. I instead just look at 1 Corinthians as an opportunity to make a difference, and to plow a new field. I am presently in the middle of putting notes together for 1 Corinthians ch. 3, which means that the writing for this study is around a quarter complete. Of course, things will be getting more complicated around chs., 7, 8, 9, and 10!
The other year-long project, on which steady progress is being made, is the Messianic Sabbath Helper. At present, all of the attention is being focused on Part I, The Significance of Shabbat. Long before the release of what will be a massive resource, will come the five-chapter excerpt Shabbat: Sabbath for Messianic Believers, and the Shabbat Service for Messianic Believers. Both of these will be useful aids, and they will serve as a stop-gap measure for the array of TNN Press publications available. Even though we have written about the Sabbath many times, we do not at present have a paperback publication that deals specifically with Shabbat. Expect Shabbat: Sabbath for Messianic Believers to be available sometime this Spring. Only one more chapter has to be written for it!
Last year as I was coordinating and working through the Messianic Kosher Helper, I definitely felt a huge load upon me to see it completed—mainly because this was a topic that can get a huge number of Messianic people confused and upset, really fast. I do not have that same feeling about the Messianic Sabbath Helper for this year, even though there are surely important things to address about Shabbat far beyond where lighting candles or challah come from. I have actually been researching and writing in a somewhat “restful” manner, even though a great deal of material does have to be sorted through. While I have been annoyed in the past that we did not have anything comprehensive ready about the Sabbath, I now know with all of the things I am compiling that it had to wait, and that we will release something when completed that will aid many, on many different critical levels.
Until next month…
J.K. McKee
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posted 17 February, 2015 to
As a writer and teacher, I (JKM) have been quite open and forthright about my egalitarian convictions. A common mistake about evangelical egalitarians is that they believe that all differences between people have been abolished in the Messiah, which is an untruth. We believe that in the post-resurrection era, the equality lost at the Fall between Adam and Eve has been restored.
Differences do exist among God's people. But, differences among people are not as important in comparison to what Yeshua has accomplished in being sacrificed for human sin. Our unity as Believers is predicated upon our common faith, not our human differences.
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posted 16 February, 2015 to
There are some huge issues that divide people in the Messianic movement, which we will surely need some resolution on in order to move forward and achieve God's objectives. Does God have one or two groups of elect? Are the chosen of God Israel and the Church? Or, do the chosen of God compose an enlarged Kingdom realm of Israel--with a restored Twelve Tribes at the center, and expanded borders to incorporate the righteous from the nations?
Much of this is addressed in today's featured publication: Are Non-Jewish Believers Really a Part of Israel?
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posted 13 February, 2015 to
Long before the release of what is anticipated to be a massive Messianic Sabbath Helper, will be the release of the mini-book Shabbat: Sabbath for Messianic Believers. This will be a five-chapter excerpt from Part I. Released along with this will be Shabbat Service for Messianic Believers, including the liturgy for an Erev Shabbat home dinner, a morning Shabbat service, and Havdallah.
Only one chapter and the Shabbat Service publication are all that remain to see these two titles released this Spring!
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posted 11 February, 2015 to
After four weeks of having examined Acts 18:1-18 and being introduced to the letter of 1 Corinthians, this week we will begin the examination of its actual contents! This week's study will be focused on 1 Corinthians 1:1-13, where we will get a feel for the Apostle Paul's relationship with the Corinthians, as well as some of the problems that had erupted in the city among the Messiah followers.
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posted 10 February, 2015 to
As I have been compiling data on the Messianic Sabbath Helper, one statement I encountered in the Dead Sea Scrolls stated, "Any living human who falls into a body of water or a cistern shall not be helped out with ladder, rope, or other instrument" (CD 11.16-17). So, is someone in the Qumran community fell down a well, rescue could not be made until Shabbat was over.
I got locked in my office late Saturday afternoon, due to a faulty doorknob which will need replacing. Thankfully, we got the door open long before Shabbat was over!
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posted 09 February, 2015 to
I apologize for not having written some of these daily posts for a few weeks, but now that the 1 Corinthians study is underway, and the ongoing Sabbath writing is also proceeding--I am going to try to "do better."
If you have not already, do peruse the Future Publications section of the TNN Press site. This will keep you posted on some of the things that we will be coordinating this year, with plans already shaping up for 2016 assignments.
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