Christians are wondering about the modern State of Israel and contemporary Jewish people. Are they related to the biblical kingdom of Israel and the ancient Jewish people of the Scriptures? Others question whether Jewish people are only God’s people of yesterday, or do they have an ongoing place in God’s plan? How does the Church relate to the Jewish people and why should Christians care about the Jewish people and their homeland? Dr. Michael Rydelnik will join us to answer these questions and more. Join us for a timely and biblically grounded conversation.
This hour we take a look at why classrooms have become hot-spots of controversy all across the nation. Sarah Parshall Perry will discuss why antisemitism, viewpoint discrimination and progressive ideologies are replacing education with indoctrination. She will help parents discover how to “look well to the ways of their household”.
Dr. Michael Rydelnik is Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies and Bible at Moody Bible Institute. He is also the Host/Bible Teacher on Open Line with Dr. Michael Rydelnik, answering listener Bible questions on some 300 stations nationwide across Moody Radio. The son of Holocaust survivors, he was raised in an observant Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York. As a high school student, Michael became a follower of Yeshua the Messiah and began teaching the Bible almost immediately. Besides his work on The Moody Bible Commentary and The Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy as co-editor and contributor, Michael is also the author of 50 Most Important Bible Questions, Understanding the Arab Israeli Conflict, and several other books and numerous articles. His doctoral research focused on the Messiah in the Hebrew Bible.
Sarah Parshall Perry is the Vice President and Legal Fellow at Defending Education. She is a former Senior Counsel to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, and former Senior Legal Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Her writing and advocacy in the areas of parental rights and constitutional, civil rights, and administrative law have been cited by or yielded appearances in both national and international media outlets, including the Associated Press, BBC World News, ABC News, Fox News, The Washington Times, NPR, The Hill, and The New York Times, among others. She testifies regularly on Capitol Hill, serves on the executive committee for civil rights of the Federalist Society, has a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, and is the author of two books on the trials and triumphs of raising children on the autism spectrum.
Janet Parshall has been broadcasting from the nation's capital for over three decades. Her passion is to "equip the saints" through intelligent conversation based on biblical truth. When she is not behind her microphone, Janet is speaking across the country on issues impacting Christians. She has authored several books. Parshall and her husband, Craig, live in Virginia and have four children and six grandchildren.
In the Market with Janet Parshall, challenges listeners to examine major news stories and issues being debated in the marketplace of ideas and speaks to them with the Word of God.
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