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The following are some publications that are planned for paperback release. (Estimated dates and order are subject to change.)


IN PROCESS


A SURVEY OF THE APOSTOLIC SCRIPTURES
FOR THE PRACTICAL MESSIANIC

As a Messianic Believer, do you have a problem reading the New Testament? When you read the Apostolic Scriptures, are you confused when you encounter the Gospels, Acts, or Epistles? Have you possibly been taught that the "New Testament" replaces the "Old Testament," and that there are contradictions between the two, only to be reconciled by the coming of Yeshua? Do you have difficulty reconciling the words of the Torah to Yeshua, Peter, Paul, John, and the other Apostles?

If you have ever asked any of these questions, it is time that you receive a re-introduction to the Apostolic Scriptures. These texts record the life story of Yeshua the Messiah, the history of the First Century Messianic community, and the challenges that the early Believers in Yeshua faced. These texts are not contrary to the Torah, but do continue God's progressive story that begins in Genesis. They have valuable lessons that every Messianic Believer and Messianic congregation must learn in this hour, as the Messianic community grows and matures.

A Survey of the Apostolic Scriptures for the Practical Messianic takes you on a journey through the New Testament from a distinct Messianic point of view. The student, in company with his or her study Bible, is asked to read through each text of the Apostolic Scriptures, jotting down characters, place names, key ideas, and reflective questions. Each book of the New Testament is then summarized for its compositional data and asks you questions to get a good Messianic feel for the text. This workbook can be used for both personal and group study, and will be a valuable aid for any Messianic Believer wanting to study the whole Bible on a consistent basis.


A SURVEY OF THE TANACH
FOR THE PRACTICAL MESSIANIC

One of the major reasons that today’s Messianic movement has grown in the past decade is a significant interest by Believers in the Torah and the Tanach. In too many cases, the Tanach Scriptures were not probed in that great a detail in a Jewish Believer’s traditional Synagogue upbringing—and perhaps more serious, a non-Jewish Believer’s Christian experience often witnessed the Old Testament taking a back seat to the New Testament in the Church. With many of the ethical and moral controversies the greater Judeo-Christian religious community is experiencing in our age, a need for God’s people to return to a foundational grounding in the Tanach Scriptures is absolutely imperative. The Old Testament cannot simply be disregarded any more.

Many have stayed away from consulting the Tanach not because of a lack of interest, but because few want to have to deal with the controversies it addresses. Unlike the Apostolic Scriptures, constrained to the First Century C.E., the period of the Tanach stretches back all the way to the beginning of the universe itself. Questions like: Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus? Did God actually condone the genocide of the Canaanites? and Am I the only one who thinks the Prophets are mentally disturbed? are debates that many people do not want to enter into. Even more significant is the effect of critical scholarship which has attempted to divide the Torah into non-Mosaic sources, question the inspiration and historical reliability of the text, and even regard much of the Tanach as Ancient Israel’s mythology. For a Messianic movement that claims to place a high value on the Tanach, it is time that we join in to these conversations.

A Survey of the Tanach for the Practical Messianic takes you through the Old Testament from a distinct Messianic point of view. It presents a theologically conservative perspective of the books of the Tanach, but one that does not avoid some of the controversies that have existed in Biblical scholarship for over one hundred and fifty years. The student, in company with his or her study Bible, is asked to read through each text of the Tanach, jotting down characters, place names, key ideas, and reflective questions. Each book of the Old Testament is then summarized for its compositional data and asks you questions to get a good Messianic feel for the text. This workbook can be used for both personal and group study, and will be a valuable aid for any Messianic Believer wanting to study the whole Bible on a consistent basis.


TORAHSCOPE, VOLUME II

Every week in Jewish synagogues the world over, a selection of a few chapters is considered from the Torah (the Pentateuch or the Law of Moses). The discipline of reading the parashah or Torah portion on Shabbat (the Sabbath) has helped maintain the cohesion of the Jewish people for millennia. As Messianic congregations have been formed, this tradition is something which has helped enliven the Bible readings and studies of those, Jewish Believers and evangelical Christians embracing their Hebraic Roots alike, who look to Moses' Teaching to tell us something about the relationship each of us is to have with Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ), and how we are to grow in holiness.

What are the benefits of consistently examining the Torah? What old lessons might need to be re-learned every year, and what are some new lessons for God's people to be considering? How will the Torah form a major part of the emerging Messianic movement's understanding of the mission of God, and the prophesied restoration of all Israel? Will we really be able to understand the admonition, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law?" (Deuteronomy 29:29)?

TorahScope, Volume II is a second year’s compilation of insightful, reflective commentaries on the weekly Torah readings, gleaned from the studies and notes of William Mark Huey. Written from a Messianic perspective, this volume shares his conviction that a Believer's life and walk with the Messiah Yeshua can be viewed through the grid and lens of consistent Torah study. It provides contemporary examples of the relevancy of the Torah to all Messiah followers, and how we are to all be conformed to His image (Romans 8:29).


TORAHSCOPE APOSTOLIC SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS

The traditional Jewish discipline of reading the weekly Torah portion every week, is something that today’s Messianic Believers surely benefit from--be they Jewish Believers who are discovering more about their Messiah from Moses’ Teaching, or evangelical Christians embracing their Hebraic Roots in a very real and tangible way. However, there can be a distinct tendency, at times, for the Messianic community to focus so much on the Torah or Law of Moses, that the continued revelation of God in the rest of the Holy Scriptures is overlooked. Messianic Believers have the profound responsibility to recognize that as important as the Torah is to people of faith, that the Torah’s goal or consummation is Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ), as our mortal inability to fully keep the commandments of the Law is to reveal our need for a Divine Savior (Romans 10:4; Galatians 3:24).

How can today’s Messianic Believers really learn to appreciate the role that the Torah and the good news of  Yeshua’s salvation play together, as the Lord molds us into an effective group that can fully accomplish His purposes? As many turn to the weekly Torah and Haftarah readings every week, Messianics have often associated a selection of key passages from the Apostolic Scriptures or New Testament. These either build on a theme detected within the various parashot, or they are intended to add additional details for consideration. 

TorahScope Apostolic Scriptures Reflections is a compilation of insightful, encouraging messages that incorporates information from the weekly Torah and Haftarah portions, connecting it to key messages in the New Testament, gleaned from the studies and notes of William Mark Huey. It is the author’s intent that we can all allow the great tapestry of God’s Word to mold us into men and women who can understand the full importance of being disciples of the Messiah of Israel.


IN PRODUCTION


CONFRONTING CRITICAL ISSUES
An Analysis of Subjects that Affects the Growth
and Stability of the Emerging Messianic Movement

Today's Messianic movement has arrived at a very important theological and spiritual crossroads. Much of our long term viability and effectiveness as a faith community will be determined by what takes place in the 2010s, and by our approach to a series of important issues surrounding the nature of the Messiah, the reliability of Holy Scripture, our communication style, and whether we want to see all people included and welcome within our assemblies or not.

Confronting Critical Issues is an important compilation book of some of TNN Press' key Confronting Issues booklets, as well as some additional articles of substance. These are bound to answer some significant questions and controversies that all of today's Messianic Believers have encountered within their fellowships, congregations, and Bible studies. This publication is also bound to stir some of its own controversy, as it inquires how we can be a mature, growing Messianic movement that is able to accomplish all that our Heavenly Father wants us to achieve --or whether we are going to disregard our spiritual potential to make a difference.

Some of the subjects addressed in Confronting Critical Issues include:

●  urban legends present in the Messianic movement
●  the Divinity and Messiahship of Yeshua
●  the Shema and the plurality of God
●  potential paganism witnessed in the stories of Holy Scripture, and how to avoid liberal theology
●  the influence of Jewish mysticism in the Messianic movement
●  the Divine Name of God
●  proper, edifying communication for today's Messianic Believers
●  equality for Jewish and non-Jewish Believers, and men and women in the Messianic movement


MESSIANIC TORAH HELPER

There are many aspects regarding the subject matter of "the Torah" for today's Messianic movement to consider. These range from: the validity of the Torah or Law of Moses, the historicity and reliability of the Torah, the degree of applicability of the Torah to Jewish and non-Jewish people, the role of tradition in following the Torah, and changes affected to the role of the Torah in the post-resurrection era via the sacrifice of Yeshua (Jesus). Some of these aspects surrounding Messianics' study and appreciation of the Torah are handled quite well by the current generation, and some of them are frequently avoided or handled rather poorly.

The Messianic Torah Helper is a valuable compilation of articles and analyses designed to assist you, your family, and your friends in approaching those important areas of the Torah which need to be considered. How have Jews and Christians approached the Law of Moses in their theology? What are some of the controversies surrounding the Pentateuch? Has the Law been abolished? Are Jewish and non-Jewish Believers in Israel's Messiah both supposed to keep the same Law? Does Jewish tradition play any kind of role in following Moses' Teaching? Are non-Jews who keep the Torah trying to replace the Jewish people? These questions, and many more, are some of those considered in the Messianic Torah Helper.

If you have ever inquired about a wide range of Torah-related issues, then the Messianic Torah Helper is definitely something for you. This book is an excellent follow up to the extensive study The New Testament Validates Torah by J.K. McKee.


MESSIANIC SABBATH HELPER

the paperback edition of the Messianic Sabbath Helper will be an expanded guide discussing various aspects of Shabbat, Jewish customs and traditions surrounding Shabbat, the Fourth Commandment and how Christians have observed it in history, as well as an examination of Biblical passages from the Tanach and Apostolic Scriptures that form our theology of Sabbath


MESSIANIC KOSHER HELPER

will be a guide discussing various aspects of the kosher dietary laws, clean and unclean meats, common Jewish traditions associated with kashrut, and common claims made that these are no longer important for Believers


TORAH IN THE BALANCE,
VOLUME II

The Set-Apart Life in Action--The Outward Expressions of Faith

will examine many of the finer areas of Torah observance, which has a diversity of interpretations and applications as witnessed in both mainstream Judaism and the wide Messianic community


SCRIPTURE UNDER SCRUTINY
WAS THE NEW TESTAMENT REALLY WRITTEN IN HEBREW?
and related subjects

is a guide that will address composition controversies surrounding the Apostolic Scriptures, the so-called Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, presumed Hebrew or Aramaic idioms in the New Testament, and how today's Messianics can better improve their approach to the Greek Scriptures


MESSIANIC HEAVEN & HELL HELPER

will be a guide analyzing various issues and controversies about death, the afterlife, the resurrection, and eternal punishment


IN LONG-TERM PRODUCTION


MESSIANIC PROPHECY HELPER

will be a guide considering a proper approach to Bible prophecy, the end-times, the Second Coming, global events, the problem with date setting, and end of the world paranoia for today's Messianic Believers


HONORING ONE ANOTHER:
GENDER ROLES, SEXUALITY,
AND EQUALITY IN TODAY'S MESSIANIC MOVEMENT

will consider the sizable need for today's Messianic community to adopt a mutual submission ideology, where Jewish and non-Jewish Believers can all feel welcome and valued, and husbands and wives can be co-leaders of the home


SALVATION ON THE LINE

is a planned two-volume work that will directly tackle the subject of apostasy in today's Messianic movement, considering both the Divinity and Messiahship of Yeshua (I) and then the reliability of the Scriptures and human origins (II)

 

 

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