I don’t want to be a Pharisee

It’s an interesting parallel. In the time of Jesus, following the exit of the Greeks from Israel and region the Pharisees and Sadducees worked to pull out of Jewish culture the infiltration of Greek culture with a call to return to Holiness and worship of the one true God, Yahweh. It was a call that…

How close are we to being Pharisees?

Life in Israel revolved around Jehovah and being faithful to His Holiness as they understood through the law. In time their intense loyalty to keeping faithful became about keeping control.  In place of being sensitive to God’s character they became possessive in keeping their position. They simply went off the tracks. The same dangers lurk…