Entries by bethemanuel

2022 Week of Prayer – Tuesday’s Prayer Focus

Too often our minds and emotions are hijacked by the chaos of the world and the challenges of life.  What if today, we take time to focus on the beauty of Yeshua?  What if we choose to reflect on all the good things He has done in our lives and the glorious creation that surrounds […]

L’Shanah Tovah

September 6, 2021 L’Shanah Tovah Umetukah! As we usher in the New Year of 5782 tonight, we want to take this time to pray over you. We pray that Adonai will cover you with His presence in this New Year. May this be a year where you fall deeper in love with the Creator of your […]

I Was Glad…

June 18, 2021  Shalom mishpochah, Tomorrow we return to one service (11 am) where we will be able to worship together as a congregational family.  I am excited and as I thought about our service tomorrow, this verse came to mind.  “I was overjoyed when they said, ‘Let’s go up to the house of the Lord’.” Tehillim (Psalms) 122.1.  I […]

Counting the Omer – Expect now is the time

March 28, 2021 Tonight we start the counting of the Omer.  For the next 50 days we will count each night as we look forward to Shavuot.  The counting is to be done with great expectation.  It is a season of reflecting on the promises of Adonai as we look to their fulfillment in our […]

For Such A Time As This

February 25, 2021 Shalom Chaverim, Tonight we began celebrating Purim, which commemorates Adonai’s deliverance of our Jewish people from the hands of those who sought our annihilation.  Most of us are familiar with the story.  Our heroine is a young Jewish woman named Hadassah (Esther). As the news of Haman’s plot to kill all the […]