CMJ USA Blog

The Prophets were expecting another redemption and a time when Torah would be written on hearts rather than stone. Jesus initiates the new covenant of Jeremiah 31:31 at his last Passover seder with his disciples.

Joy is coming Resurrection Sunday. But let us sit with Jesus’ death and remember the heavy cost of that joy. How precious and expensive is our healing, our forgiveness, our joy.

CMJ USA Executive Director Cariño Casas was a guest teacher on The Torah Guide podcast, where she looks at three Gospel accounts that show that Jesus is the Prophet Like Moses of Deuteronomy 18

Psalm 103 remnds us that God's character is always to have mercy and that he longs to dwell with us an makes a way fo him to be always among us.

The light of Messiah is either revelation or judgment to each of our souls. Jesus’ invitation to walk in the light is a call to discipleship. We stay in the light if we follow him through death to eternal life.

What does the Holy Spirit and the season after Pentecost have to do with Jesus - the Messiah - and Israel?

On June 11, the greater church remembers the life of Barnabas, a Jewish believer who traveled around the Roman world with Paul.

Why did God choose the pilgrim feast of Shavuot/Pentecost to pour out the Holy Spirit on the followers of Jesus the Messiah? Executive Director Cariño Casas looks at Acts 2 and Exodus 19-20 to answer the question.

When God writes Torah on our hearts and regathers Israel and the nations together.

What is Lent? And what does it have to do with the Jewishness of Jesus?

Of those who have claimed to be the Messiah of Israel, only Yeshua of Nazareth has drawn the pagan nations toward the God of Israel

For some, the Christmas narrative has become trite, something to be toyed with, but the story of the infant in the manager is not some fairy tale. It is the revelation of the King-Like-David, the Redeemer of Israel and the Nations.

The Messiah's Advent, both in the past and in the future, is important not only to the Church but is also of great importance to the people of Israel. In his first Advent, the Messiah came for his own Jewish people. His ministry was to them, first and foremost.

When Jesus feeds the multitude by multiplying bread, it is not lost on the people that he is the Prophet Moses predicted. Yet, the people - and even the disciples - fail to understand what this prophetic role would entail. Part of our ongoing series "Jesus, the Prophet Like Moses."

Why does Jesus turn water into wine? Is he announcing the fading of the Law? No, rather he is announcing the new Exodus and his identity as Moses' successor. Part of our ongoing series "Jesus, the Prophet Like Moses."