The revival of a rebel Jew
Posted on June 1, 2008
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In the context of a piece on a new biography on Francis Schaeffer, Tim Challies shares the testimony of Richard Ganz, pastor of Ottawa Reformed Presbyterian Church –
“In my youth I spent every afternoon studying the Hebrew Scriptures, five days a week, and on Friday night and Saturday I worshipped. As I grew older I worshipped for a time each day in the synagogue morning and evening. I would rise before dawn and before going to the morning service, in obedience to rabbinic tradition, I would put on tefillin—the boxes containing God’s law—on my forehead and arm.
Then one cold, clear midwinter night my life was shattered. …”
– from Challies.com.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…