Dip some juicy apples in honey to celebrate New Year! Yep, in the Bible (as with northern hemisphere school), New Year is in Autumn. There’s actually three Bible festivals in Autumn, and Rosh Hashana (Hebrew for Head of the Year) is the first. In our home, we don’t do massive things for these, but I […]
As August slips into Autumn, a bit early this year it feels, I’m starting to think and plan for September, and the three Biblical Feasts which all fall in it this year. In the church calendar, Autumn is the ‘green, growing time’, where there are no major festivals. However, in the Bible (and the Jewish […]
This year all three of the Autumn feasts in the Bible, known in Judaism as the High Holidays: Feast 1: Rosh Hashana Feast 2: Yom Kippur – The Day of Atonement Feast 3: Sukkot- The Feast of Shelters Each of these festivals can be found in the Old Testament, and it’s very likely that Jesus […]
If you have looked at reading the Easter story together as a family, you may have noticed that it’s a LOT longer than the Christmas story! One easy way to take in the whole Easter story in one or only a few episodes is to listen to it! There are loads of great audio Bibles […]
Did you know that the Christian festival of Pentecost is on the Biblical festival of Shavuot, otherwise known as the Festival of Weeks?This Biblical festival comes from the Old Testament, where God’s people were told:“‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a […]
In our family, we celebrate Shabbat each week and Passover each year so I wanted to look at the Jewish ‘High Holy Days’ as they are known, to find some rituals we could use to enrich our faith at home. I’m not going to give an exhaustive overview here, (because you have google too!) but […]
