God Centered Dad

The day that this article is posting, April 1, 2026, is the Day of Passover. This day is a day of commemoration for the Israelite people for the remembrance of the final plague that God placed upon the nation of Egypt just prior to the Israelites leaving Egypt after 430 years there. This marked the end of their slavery and the beginning of the journey by which God truly made the Israelite nation His. The Passover celebration centres largely around the meal, the format of which is partially set out by God Himself in the Scriptures, but which has also taken certain elements of tradition and interwoven them into the ritual. This celebration has been in effect for thousands of years, ever since God instructed Moses to make it an annual tradition beginning the year after the Israelites exited Egypt. The Passover became relevant to the Christian faith at the moment when the Christian faith began to take root, almost 2000 years ago, but the connections between the Passover and the Christ ste...

There is a theology out in the world that God has rejected Israel in favour of the church; that is to say that Believers in Jesus the Christ have taken the place of the nation of Israel in God's eyes, including inheriting all the promises to Israel. I am here today to state unequivocally that this theology is false.  Hebrews 13:8 tells us that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Jesus was born a Jew, raised a Jew, worshipped as a Jew, taught the Jews as a Jew, and He died as a Jew condemned under Jewish Law by jealous Jewish leaders who only had authority over the Jews. Jesus came to the chosen people of God, through whom God promised to send a Saviour for the whole world. Jesus' ministry was primarily to the Jewish people whom He knew would reject Him, as had to happen. There is absolutely no indication in Scripture that the new covenant church of Believers will ever replace the nation of Israel. In fact, in Romans 11 the apostle Paul argues ...