Comments for Life at the Wellspring http://lifeatthewellspring.com Insights from a Hebraic Perspective on Faith and Daily Living Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on About me by ann sturdy http://lifeatthewellspring.com/about/#comment-201 ann sturdy Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:29:56 +0000 #comment-201 Dear Lois - thank you for such wonderful teaching. Please would you do an article on "woman teachers" from a biblical view point. There are main current views, but what was the thinking in biblical times? Dear Lois – thank you for such wonderful teaching. Please would you do an article on “woman teachers” from a biblical view point. There are main current views, but what was the thinking in biblical times?

]]> Comment on About me by Sybil Crenshaw http://lifeatthewellspring.com/about/#comment-116 Sybil Crenshaw Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:33:02 +0000 #comment-116 Dear Lois, If I had the resources, I would get "Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus" in the hands of everyone I know! For now, I am purchasing one or two copies at a time as I can. A "thank you" just doesn't seem to be enough to express how much appreciation I have that you and Ann have written this book. You are addressing the "whys" and opening up the Scriptures to me. Thank you for opening a door to the Word and letting me sit at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus, just like I am there with Him in the Scriptures. I love Him, and I am gleaning so much from His teaching because of you. Sybil Dear Lois,

If I had the resources, I would get “Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus” in the hands of everyone I know!
For now, I am purchasing one or two copies at a time as I can.

A “thank you” just doesn’t seem to be enough to express how much appreciation I have that you and Ann have written this book. You are addressing the “whys” and opening up the Scriptures to me.

Thank you for opening a door to the Word and letting me sit at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus, just like I am there with Him in the Scriptures. I love Him, and I am gleaning so much from His teaching because of you.

Sybil

]]> Comment on The Bible is Like Star Trek by Mike http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2007/11/10/the-bible-is-like-star-trek/#comment-115 Mike Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:44:48 +0000 http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2007/11/10/the-bible-is-like-star-trek/#comment-115 One of Lot’s daughters gave birth to a son named Moab, and he became the father of the Moabite people. So that’s why the Moabites are so immoral! Since we are all blamed for Adam's sin, why not?! Sure... One of Lot’s daughters gave birth to a son named Moab, and he became the father of the Moabite people. So that’s why the Moabites are so immoral!

Since we are all blamed for Adam’s sin, why not?! Sure…

]]> Comment on About me by Todd Lanting http://lifeatthewellspring.com/about/#comment-113 Todd Lanting Mon, 25 May 2009 04:33:27 +0000 #comment-113 Hi Lois! Your book "Sitting at the Feet of Jesus" is an extraordinary work! Thank you so much for this tremendous blessing. I will cherish it always. Hope you are well. How many years has it been since we were together in Israel? Blessings! Stay Dusty, Todd Lanting Hi Lois!

Your book “Sitting at the Feet of Jesus” is an extraordinary work! Thank you so much for this tremendous blessing. I will cherish it always.

Hope you are well. How many years has it been since we were together in Israel?

Blessings!

Stay Dusty,

Todd Lanting

]]> Comment on Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus – Almost Done by Dale Lundgren http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2008/09/13/sitting-at-the-feet-of-rabbi-jesus-almost-done/#comment-111 Dale Lundgren Mon, 18 May 2009 20:41:27 +0000 http://lifeatthewellspring.wordpress.com/?p=62#comment-111 I heard Ann being interviewed today on KTIS, a station I used to broadcast from sharing what God taught me to teach from my heart, as well as sharing my music from recordings. After I was unable to go back to work because of becoming disabled, hating havint to stay home, I felt God telling me to spend time with Him. When James 1 really spoke to my heart, i asked God to show me truth, and then He began to teach me through the Holy Spirit, and if a guy in a wheelchair can sit at the feet of Jesus, I did just that, spending some forty hours a week in the Word, and still find it my favorite thing to do, and has become my passion. Ann said she was not an expert and only a lay person, and I can identify with that - but she got some things that I don't hear from a lot of preachers. I wonder if she came to the conclusiom, as did I, from the Bible, and reading books that God I feel has led me to, as well as talking to a lot of my pastor/teacher friends, and acquaintances - that, for one thing, God has two peoples. Starting out with Israel, bringing them into existance through intervening in the life of Abraham and Sarah, etc., but commissioning them to first get to know God themselves, and then to not hoard Him as their possession (In the O.T. the other nations saw the only God as Israel's tribal God), but to tell Gentiles about Him. Jesus scolded them for not doing that (bearing any fruite, He called it), and said in Matthew that He was going to give that privilege to another "nation" (Peter tells us that this is the church), who would bear fruit. And now we have people sharing the Word of God back to them, probably not as much as we should. But I have come to understand that Israel is God's earthly people, as they were Promised the Land and earthly things, IF they obeyed Him as a people and individually. And the church is God's heavenly people, as His promises to us are heavenly in nature, again based on a condition, IF we do the will of God. Many call the Old Testament the Jewish Bible and the New Testament the Churches Bible. Well, what I have learned is that the Old Testament is the LAW, and the New Testament is GRACE oriented. Now, the way that makes sense to me is that when we are kids, we need to have "the Law" laid down for us, to teach us what is right and what is wrong. God started out with that for just that reason. Then, now that we Christians should be grown to a degree, with Grace and God the Holy Spirit, we should be able to have the freedom they didn't have to go out and do the Will of God the Father. Now, since A.D. 70, what was applicable to the Jews up until then, has been set aside, as have they since God only seems to work with one of His two people at a time. So today, if a Jew is moved to be a follower of Jesus, he or she has to get saved the same way we do, which is the gospel of Grace (1 Cor 15:3 & 4). Back in Jesus day, the Jews had an entirely different gospel, and too many Gentiles get it confused and mix it with the gospel of grace. Theirs is shown in the gospels, and called THE GOSPEL of the Kingdom. And there are a lot of reasons for that, I have discovered. That never was meant for the Gentiles, and we never seen any Gentile who became a Christian in the Bible being told that was how they had to come, by repenting, and becoming baptized. We are told to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is how we are saved, because Israel always knew of God, and belonged to Him as a people. So those who strayed away, simply needed to come back. The Gentile has never been taught as the Jews were about Him, so we need to believe that there is a God, and that He is a rewarder of those who love Him. There are a lot of other differences, a lot of them Ann pointed out in the interview, between the two, but 1 Corinthians 10:11 links the Old Testament and the New. It goes back to the Exodus and tells us of the time when Israel came out of Egypt, and how everything that happened to them is an example to us of the church, Jew or Gentile in our day. A type (tupos in the Greek), or a foreshadow, a blueprint, a pattern - take your pick as to which helps you to understand. Then in the New Testament, much is explained by putting the two together, helping us understand the full picture of what God wanted us to know. The Passover was a picture of THE LAMB of God, Jesus, who would come and become our Passover, as the New Testament tells us, etc. I would love to compare notes with either or both of you authors, as I feel God has shown me so much that I do not hear Bible teachers expressing, that is right there in the Bible for even a non-Seminary graduate like me to understand. I have come to the point of not apologizing for that as I once did, since someone pointed out that all of the apostles were not graduates of any Bible SChool either - but learned as I did, at the feet of Jesus. He is so good! I heard Ann being interviewed today on KTIS, a station I used to broadcast from sharing what God taught me to teach from my heart, as well as sharing my music from recordings. After I was unable to go back to work because of becoming disabled, hating havint to stay home, I felt God telling me to spend time with Him. When James 1 really spoke to my heart, i asked God to show me truth, and then He began to teach me through the Holy Spirit, and if a guy in a wheelchair can sit at the feet of Jesus, I did just that, spending some forty hours a week in the Word, and still find it my favorite thing to do, and has become my passion. Ann said she was not an expert and only a lay person, and I can identify with that – but she got some things that I don’t hear from a lot of preachers. I wonder if she came to the conclusiom, as did I, from the Bible, and reading books that God I feel has led me to, as well as talking to a lot of my pastor/teacher friends, and acquaintances – that, for one thing, God has two peoples. Starting out with Israel, bringing them into existance through intervening in the life of Abraham and Sarah, etc., but commissioning them to first get to know God themselves, and then to not hoard Him as their possession (In the O.T. the other nations saw the only God as Israel’s tribal God), but to tell Gentiles about Him. Jesus scolded them for not doing that (bearing any fruite, He called it), and said in Matthew that He was going to give that privilege to another “nation” (Peter tells us that this is the church), who would bear fruit. And now we have people sharing the Word of God back to them, probably not as much as we should. But I have come to understand that Israel is God’s earthly people, as they were Promised the Land and earthly things, IF they obeyed Him as a people and individually. And the church is God’s heavenly people, as His promises to us are heavenly in nature, again based on a condition, IF we do the will of God. Many call the Old Testament the Jewish Bible and the New Testament the Churches Bible. Well, what I have learned is that the Old Testament is the LAW, and the New Testament is GRACE oriented. Now, the way that makes sense to me is that when we are kids, we need to have “the Law” laid down for us, to teach us what is right and what is wrong. God started out with that for just that reason. Then, now that we Christians should be grown to a degree, with Grace and God the Holy Spirit, we should be able to have the freedom they didn’t have to go out and do the Will of God the Father. Now, since A.D. 70, what was applicable to the Jews up until then, has been set aside, as have they since God only seems to work with one of His two people at a time. So today, if a Jew is moved to be a follower of Jesus, he or she has to get saved the same way we do, which is the gospel of Grace (1 Cor 15:3 & 4). Back in Jesus day, the Jews had an entirely different gospel, and too many Gentiles get it confused and mix it with the gospel of grace. Theirs is shown in the gospels, and called THE GOSPEL of the Kingdom. And there are a lot of reasons for that, I have discovered. That never was meant for the Gentiles, and we never seen any Gentile who became a Christian in the Bible being told that was how they had to come, by repenting, and becoming baptized. We are told to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is how we are saved, because Israel always knew of God, and belonged to Him as a people. So those who strayed away, simply needed to come back. The Gentile has never been taught as the Jews were about Him, so we need to believe that there is a God, and that He is a rewarder of those who love Him. There are a lot of other differences, a lot of them Ann pointed out in the interview, between the two, but 1 Corinthians 10:11 links the Old Testament and the New. It goes back to the Exodus and tells us of the time when Israel came out of Egypt, and how everything that happened to them is an example to us of the church, Jew or Gentile in our day. A type (tupos in the Greek), or a foreshadow, a blueprint, a pattern – take your pick as to which helps you to understand. Then in the New Testament, much is explained by putting the two together, helping us understand the full picture of what God wanted us to know. The Passover was a picture of THE LAMB of God, Jesus, who would come and become our Passover, as the New Testament tells us, etc. I would love to compare notes with either or both of you authors, as I feel God has shown me so much that I do not hear Bible teachers expressing, that is right there in the Bible for even a non-Seminary graduate like me to understand. I have come to the point of not apologizing for that as I once did, since someone pointed out that all of the apostles were not graduates of any Bible SChool either – but learned as I did, at the feet of Jesus. He is so good!

]]> Comment on The Bible is Like Star Trek by Melyssa Lockhart http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2007/11/10/the-bible-is-like-star-trek/#comment-109 Melyssa Lockhart Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:50:15 +0000 http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2007/11/10/the-bible-is-like-star-trek/#comment-109 I enjoyed reading this. Please forward to me. Thank you. Melyssa Lockhart I enjoyed reading this. Please forward to me. Thank you.
Melyssa Lockhart

]]> Comment on Can we call Jesus “Rabbi”? by Dan Tompkins http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2009/01/14/can-we-call-jesus-rabbi/#comment-108 Dan Tompkins Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:51:52 +0000 http://lifeatthewellspring.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-108 As a Jew, would Jesus have studied under another Rabbi or Teacher in order to be recognized Himself as being a teacher. Is there any record of who that teacher would have been or Jesus, being God, was all the teaching he would have formally had? I know at one point, the student will ask a Rabbi if they are worthy to be a follower. Did Jesus ever do this? As a Jew, would Jesus have studied under another Rabbi or Teacher in order to be recognized Himself as being a teacher. Is there any record of who that teacher would have been or Jesus, being God, was all the teaching he would have formally had? I know at one point, the student will ask a Rabbi if they are worthy to be a follower. Did Jesus ever do this?

]]> Comment on Important Announcements from Lois by timgrandstaff http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2009/02/05/important-announcements-from-lois/#comment-101 timgrandstaff Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:22:18 +0000 http://lifeatthewellspring.com/?p=116#comment-101 Fantastic! I love your writings. I also use engedi as a resource hub for study and understanding. I loved the "getting dusty" stuff and wished more would come. I am going to check out your site now. Also get a copy of you book! Thanks for all you are doing to help us understand the Jesus we follow. - Tim www.timgrandstaff.com Fantastic! I love your writings. I also use engedi as a resource hub for study and understanding. I loved the “getting dusty” stuff and wished more would come. I am going to check out your site now. Also get a copy of you book! Thanks for all you are doing to help us understand the Jesus we follow.

- Tim
http://www.timgrandstaff.com

]]> Comment on Would Jesus Go Green? by Jon http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2008/04/05/would-jesus-go-green/#comment-98 Jon Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:11:16 +0000 http://lifeatthewellspring.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-98 Great post. I was thinking about this today. Especially asking what would be Jesus' position on saving the environment/going green since there are no obvious reference of him saying anything on the issue. The passages and rabbinic quotes you put forth are very helpful! not to mention explaining Jesus' greatest command! Great post. I was thinking about this today. Especially asking what would be Jesus’ position on saving the environment/going green since there are no obvious reference of him saying anything on the issue.

The passages and rabbinic quotes you put forth are very helpful! not to mention explaining Jesus’ greatest command!

]]> Comment on Can we call Jesus “Rabbi”? by Kurt http://lifeatthewellspring.com/2009/01/14/can-we-call-jesus-rabbi/#comment-97 Kurt Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:21:18 +0000 http://lifeatthewellspring.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-97 Thanks for this great post! I have been trying to discern Jesus in his jewish context, especially since i will be teaching on passover in my church in a few weeks. I have one pastor on our staff that argues that it is impossible to understand the judaism of the first century because there is not such thing as 'monolithhic judaism.' Therefore, he claims that Jesus was not a 'rabbi' and that we assume too much when we impose ideas on him (most of which he claims come in after 70AD). Thanks for giving me more thoughts on this and i look forward to your book... Thanks for this great post! I have been trying to discern Jesus in his jewish context, especially since i will be teaching on passover in my church in a few weeks. I have one pastor on our staff that argues that it is impossible to understand the judaism of the first century because there is not such thing as ‘monolithhic judaism.’ Therefore, he claims that Jesus was not a ‘rabbi’ and that we assume too much when we impose ideas on him (most of which he claims come in after 70AD). Thanks for giving me more thoughts on this and i look forward to your book…

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