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in the middle is the place between Judaism and Christianity.
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Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Wednesday Jul 24, 2024
Roy delves further into tithing as a Messianic Jew. He and Cedric discuss the complications of applying biblical tithing rules to the modern day. They also talk about the intricacies of considering how the tithe is ultimately handled by the people or entities that receive it.
Passage referenced: Deuteronomy 14:22
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Roy and Cedric discuss what it means to tithe, what its purpose is, and what one’s purpose should be when they tithe. Roy analyzes tithing from a biblical perspective. Cedric explains his beliefs on tithing from a Christian perspective.
Passages Referenced: Genesis 14:18-20, Deuteronomy 26, Genesis 28:10-22, Deuteronomy 8:8, 14:22-23
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
Wednesday Jul 10, 2024
Roy speaks to the requirements to become sons of God and how one’s attributes align with who they follow. Cedric talks about the instruction of praying in the Lord’s name and the meaning of the word “Amen.” They finish out the Choice of Motivation series by discussing the importance of interceding for the whole as opposed to the individual.
Passage referenced: Acts 19:11-20
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Roy and Cedric discuss the dangers of being overzealous in attempting to enact the will of God. Roy expands on this by reiterating the importance of considering the community in your actions. Cedric speaks to his own experience of realizing the importance of holding himself accountable before trying to hold others accountable, as well as coming to corrective conversations with solutions.
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Wednesday Jun 26, 2024
Roy explains that believers are not allowed to delight in the destruction of others. Cedric and Roy discuss the purpose and responsibility of priesthood and what it means to stand in the gap for others.
Passages referenced: Proverbs 24:17, Romans 12:1-2, Numbers 20:1-13, Matthew 13:24-30
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Cedric speaks to the struggle of calling himself a Christian in the modern day and the connotations that come with the title. Roy breaks down how legalism comes about and the importance of structure in community.
Passage referenced: Numbers 25
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Roy and Cedric close out the Mixed Multitude series with a discussion of issues that may arise when a mixed multitude comes together and the difficulties some have with separating from their experience of oppression. Roy speaks about lashon hara (evil speech) and the biblical consequences of it. They end with discussing the process of removing leaven from a household for Pesach, what it represents, and when it should end each season.
Passages referenced: Numbers 8:5-7, 11:16-25
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Wednesday Jun 05, 2024
Roy and Cedric further discuss the Seven Middot and how they interlink with each other. Roy speaks to his experiences with the Jewish interpretation of scripture. He and Cedric consider believers’ common struggles with interpreting scripture and how to dig deeper. They also speak to the reality of a mixed multitude.
Passage referenced: Hebrews 5: 8-9, Daniel 3:16-28
Meet the Hosts
Cedric Spencer is a life-long Christian who was raised up in his great-grandmother’s church and eventually learned to love the word of God with the level of passion similar to which he was being taught. His mother, whom he describes as a voracious learner and student in general, approached the Word with “passion and vigor” and encouraged him to seek out someone with rabbinical understanding to learn the cultural contexts of the text he was reading.
Roy Keiningham is a Messianic Jew who grew up believing in the concept of God, but not Jesus. He converted to Christianity with his wife during the prosperity gospel era and struggled to find connection and fellowship with other Christians due to his desire to find more than just blessing and salvation. Over the years, he continued to seek out an answer to the question, “who is Jesus?” He struggled to find an answer in the church, so he continued searching until he found himself preferring, for some time, to attend synagogue. He attended a Yeshivah to study Jewish thought and the Hebrew language, and over time, he began to reconcile Yeshua Hamashiach (Jesus, the Messiah) with God Himself.
Roy and Cedric met through the church that they both worked for, though they worked on different campuses. Cedric’s experience was in IT and social media web development, but had been asked to move into the video department after some overlap became apparent in his social media role. In his training, he found that he would need some additional help with live streaming in particular, as he wanted to lead his campus “in a way that ultimately served God well.” So, he visited the corporate headquarters, where he met Roy, who had nearly 30 years of media experience, and volunteered to come out to Cedric’s campus and assist with training.
It was during this time that they began discussing scripture and Torah with each other. After Roy’s assistance was no longer needed at Cedric’s campus, they continued to meet over the years to study together, do deep dives into Torah, and exchange thought processes between Christianity and Judaism.