I'm Jewish and believe in
Yeshua Ha Maschiach(Jesus Christ) as Lord and Savior. I believe
it is possible to be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. For
the first 30 years of my life, I did not really have a very
active interest in the things of God, religion, or anything
having to do with spiritual matters. I had always been under the
impression that a "Christian" was simply someone who
wasn'r Jewish, or someone wh attended a church rather than a
synagogue. In my early years, I did attend religious school, had
a Bar Mitzvah, Confirmation, and did certain things that were
traditional in Judaism. Our family was not Orthodox, we did not
observe the "Kosher" laws, but we did celebrate certain
holidays, like Hanakah, Passover, and the High Holidays (Rosh
Hashnah, and Yom Kippur). My parents did an excellent job
teaching me right from wrong, and teaching me to do my best in
school. They stressed the importance of getting good grades...I
attended USC, and majored in music..In 1970, I was married. We
were married by a Rabbi, but were never active in religious
activities. Up to this point I considered myself an agnostic. My
thoughts and opinions didn't change until the late 1970's.....at
this time , we still had no children, I was making fairly good
money in my L.A. county job. I seemed to have essentially
everything I wanted in my life, but it seemed that something was
missing! I didn't exactly know where to look or what I needed to
do to "find myself." Various people had at differnt
times in my life, shared the gospel of Jesus Christ, with me....I
began to wonder whether or not I could find the truth; "what
if I asked God if he was real or not!" Would he show me? So
I prayed this pray. I asked God to show me the truth in such a
way that I would know it beyond the shadow of a doubt, and that I
could totally understand. In a way that I could relate to. The
results were amazing! God showed me that there has been no
"regular" person ever born on this earth that came into
the world ready and willing to share his toys. It is a well known
and documented fact that every child has a desire and tendancy to
want to protect what is his and to always look after number 1. I
already knew that the bible stated that there are "None
Righteous, no not a one" and that "all have sinned and
come short". I knew it was true of myself and all others. I
also knew that I had done many things in my life that were wrong.
I realized that if the bible was accurate about the human
conditon, it must also be accurate about the solution, and that
solution is Yeshua Ha Maschiach (Jesus Christ).
Over the last ten years I have been working with the music ministry. The Lord has given me at least 30 songs and I pray that they will be a blessing to those that hear them.
Emmet plays keyboards for the band and has been with the band for several years. He also writes music and lyrics for some of the songs on the album. Contact him at [email protected] (subject line: Attention Emmet).
