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in the middle is the place between Judaism and Christianity.
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Wednesday May 29, 2024
Wednesday May 29, 2024
Roy and Cedric discuss the role of believers in the world. Roy explains the Seven Middot (Seven Divine Emotive Attributes) and each corresponding personality type.
Chabad Article on the Seven Middot
Passages referenced: Numbers 8-12
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Wednesday May 22, 2024
Roy and Cedric speak to the differences between Jewish and Christian tradition and understanding. Roy explains why there are seemingly contradictory thoughts within Judaism.
Passage referenced: Romans 12:2
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Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Roy and Cedric discuss the importance of taking time to study and examine scripture. Roy explains the context of kosher eating in a modern time.
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Roy and Cedric discuss the experience of being in God's presence. Roy expands on the concept of being heavenly minded and the importance of being effective on earth. They also talk about the meaning of purpose and how to find it.
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Roy and Cedric dig into the Shemini Torah portion, discussing the “eighth day” when the laws of nature are altered and the roles of Moshe and Aaron. They also begin to contemplate how we can bring the Lord to His people.
Passages referenced: Leviticus 9:1-3, 6, 22-24, 10:1-2
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Roy asks for Cedric’s perspective of the Christian experience of the Ruach Ha-Kodesh (Holy Spirit) and its accessibility. They also dig into conversation around baseless hatred and biases in the church, the difficulty in changing culture, and the importance of teaching truth from the beginning. They end the Milk to Meat series by reiterating the importance of reflecting Christ in our conduct and being as one in community.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
In this episode, Roy and Cedric discuss the importance of studying the Old Testament. They also analyze Paul’s experience with the Gentiles and not being able to “feed them meat,” and how this has affected the modern church.
Passages referenced: Psalms 37:23, 1 Corinthians 3:2-6, Hebrews 5:7-14, 6:1-6, 1 John 5:4
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Roy and Cedric discuss the process of sacrifice that leads to redemption. Cedric speaks to his thoughts on what it means to reflect the Father’s love and why it is important. They also consider the perceptions of “leaving Christ on the cross” and carrying your own cross, as well as what it means to walk before the Lord versus walking with Him.
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.