On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Leviticus 23:6 We stopped at some grocery stores while in Israel for food. Chips always make a good snack while on the road, and we found a bag of Doritos with the logo transliterated into Hebrew. The packaging, while written in Hebrew, was otherwise recognizable. However, there was something a little odd: a tag stuck to it. My limited Hebrew was enough to translate the largest words: “kosher for Passover”. These chips are unleavened! When the […]
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Swept Under a Rug
For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. Exodus 12:15 The Feast of Unleavened Bread is in full swing this week. Passover was on Monday. It’s a yearly reminder of the redemption God worked by bringing Israel out of Egypt. I was able to enjoy a Seder meal with my church small group again this year. However, this holiday is more than just a large meal […]
Passing over Bitterness
Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Exodus 12:7-8 Once again Passover is upon us. It is an annual reminder of the great redemption God worked by bringing the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. We gather together to eat an interesting array of foods such as parsley, matzah (unleavened bread), charoset (a sweet apple, honey, and […]
Holiday Weekend
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. Colossians 2:16-17 Monday was Memorial Day, a day in the US where we remember those who have fought in our wars and gone before us. Sunday I mentioned it was Pentecost. That made for a full holiday weekend, but also an enjoyable one. Perhaps you’ve read on my blog about the various festivals mentioned […]
Matzah Man
On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Leviticus 23:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast–as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. 1 […]
Twas the Night of Passover
Last fall I wrote “Twas a Night During Sukkot“, which was a lot of fun to write and read. Passover is now upon us, a time for remembering the redemption God worked by bringing the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt as well as the greater redemption that our Messiah Jesus worked in freeing us from slavery to sin by his death and resurrection. I had the privilege to celebrate with some good friends last night. In light of my previous poem, I felt it was appropriate to write a new poem for Passover. The last was filled with some […]