Surviving in the Desert
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
by Monica Obreja
After a month-long battle with covid on February 26th of last year, my husband Aurel went home to be with the Lord. When Aurel was in the hospital fighting for his life, I did the only thing I knew how: fight for him in prayer. I asked friends and family here in Israel and all over the world to pray. We had zoom prayer...
What Child is This? Reflections of a Messianic Jew on Christmas
Growing up in Israel in the seventies and eighties, Christmas was a far-off Christian holiday that I had no idea about other than the images of the beautiful lights, Christmas trees and decorations we saw in pictures and movies from America and Europe. Today, many Israelis visit Arab Christian villages and neighborhoods during the Christmas season to enjoy the lights and...
Salvation Stories
A young man asks: “If Yeshua really is the Messiah, then what should I do?”
Recently a young man reached out to us through our Hebrew website and asked if we could get in touch with him. After several phone conversations, we understood that he had been reading the New Testament and was interested in studying with someone to learn more. Kosta, who devotes his time to...
Going Deeper Together
by Kosta Bikesh
The only way to grow in our faith is to get to know God, and the best way to do that is by spending time getting to Him in His Word! This last year, God put it on my heart to start a weekly group that would facilitate studying the Word together and encourage a lifestyle of reading the Bible. After the High holy days, I started weekly...
The culture came first, the foreign gods followed
by Gil Afriat
While our focus during Hanukkah is on the miracle of the Maccabee’s victory over the greatest army in the world at that time and on their spiritual dedication in the face of overwhelming odds, this holiday offers us some sobering insights if we ask the right questions. Nothing happens in a vacuum. A good question to ask might be, “What led up to the Greek...
A Powerful Testimony: Raised from the Ruins
This is a story about Menny, a very special person who joined Tiferet Yeshua over the summer. Recently after one of our services, Menny walked up to Debby, Tiferet Yeshua secretary, and asked her, “Debby, how do you know Yeshua is alive? I know He is alive because He raised me from the dead. But how do you know He’s alive?”
Over the summer we shared the...