CMJ USA News & Views

Read about Jewish roots, how to fight antisemitism, and ministry updates.
Remember with Candles in the Background and a cloth Star of David

God is Working Behind the Scenes

Nadine looks back over her journey to becoming a holocaust education volunteer to see how God has been working in her life.
 
Temptation of Jesus

Lent: Israel and Her King in the Wilderness

What is Lent? And what does it have to do with the Jewishness of Jesus?
 
3 magi on camels in silhouette

Messiah’s manifest destiny

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
 
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Advent and the Messianic Hope of Israel 

The Messiah's Advent, both in the past and in the future, is important not only to the Church but also 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.
 
Sukkah built by Christ Our King in New Braunfels

Sukkot 2022 in the Texas Hill Country

CMJ's Texas rep and a co-laboring congregation celebrated Sukkot with a Spanish language congregation and an area pastor, even though a multi-church Sukkot event was canceled when the speaker had to pull out.
 
Mosaic of Pentecost

My Personal Pentecost

Charles Gardner shares his testimony of learning the vital need for power from on high in gospel witness
 
Simeon and Anna acknowledge Jesus is the Messiah

Christmas in February: The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

What does Mary and Joseph's Torah-faithfulness and Jesus' Jewish DNA have to say to Christians in the 21st century?
 
David Pileggi at Christ Church Jerusalem on Christmas Eve

God's Christmas grace is enough for us

Christ Church Jerusalem to livestream Christmas Eve caroling starting at 8 a.m. ET
 
Hanukkiah and Christmas tree

Without Hanukkah, there’s no Christmas

When Palestinians and their supporters claim Jesus as their own and deny his Jewishness, they help recreate the conditions for atrocities against Jews
 
Maccabean Mother and her 7 Sons

The Maccabees, Martyrs, and the Messiah

How the Hanukkah story inspired Jewish theology that explains how Jesus’ death atones for the sin of the world
 
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Sukkot: The Water of Life

On the last day of this week-long feast, as water was being drawn to be poured on the altar in the Temple, Jesus of Nazareth made a now-famous pronouncement: ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.'
 
Jewish man praying

The High Holy Days: A Time to Pray

Continue to keep the Jewish people in prayer, as those who hate the Jewish people sometimes target their attacks during the High Holy Days.
 
Flight of the Prisoners by James Tissot (1902)

Av: A Time of Sorrow and Comfort

We have entered the Hebrew month of Av, the fifth month in God’s calendar as instituted in Exodus 12:2. The month of Av has what may be the saddest day of the year for Jewish people, and yet this month of sorrow also speaks of God’s faithfulness and redem
 
Aaron Gann teaches on the origins of Easter

The (non-pagan) origins of Easter

The Holiday of Easter is one of the most widely known celebrations of the Christian Faith. It is commonly taught that this was originally a pagan holiday baptized by the Christian people in the early centuries of the Church. However, the evidence paints a
 
Passover table with matzah, hagaddah, seder plate

Passover video series by Shoresh Study Tours

Shoresh Study Tours shares a series of videos on Passover. In the videos, Aaron Eime, a deacon at Christ Church Jerusalem, talks about what Passover is, followed by a Passover Seder with his family.
 
Jesus in the wilderness

Why do we fast?

The season of Lent, the forty days before Easter, begins this year on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020. Traditionally it is a time of fasting, repentance and reflection in preparation for remembering the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. (Traditio
 
Maundy Thursday walk to Mount of Olives

Maundy Thursday Meditation

A walk to the Mount of Olives
 
... then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
Ezekiel 37:9-10