Yeshua Speaks presents the essential words of Jesus as his first-century audience would have heard them preached and shows that Jesus’ message is more than just a collection of helpful sayings, but a spiritual manifesto just as revolutionary, and desperately needed, today as it was 2,000 years ago.
 

Jesus primarily preached a vision of a God that loves and cares about you and wants you to have a better life, not a threatening message of condemnation and eternal damnation. “There is a God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life,” is what lies at the heart of this book, and the core of Jesus’ teachings. Jesus (Yeshua in his native Aramaic) spoke out against public displays of piety, religious rituals, empty repetition of prayers, and publicizing charitable giving. He also spoke against calling anyone father or rabbi, and that his true enemies were the religious elites.
 

Yeshua Speaks: The Paleo-Christian Teachings of Jesus for Nonbelievers reveals the essential spoken words of Jesus in the Gospels. This book is for atheists, agnostics, disenchanted or disillusioned Christians, or anyone from other faiths who knows nothing of the teachings of Jesus and has had no exposure to the basic teachings of Jesus other than what they may have heard from mainstream sources. The 207 sayings included in Yeshua Speaks are grouped into categories ranging from Anxiety to Wealth and include a section of 51 passages on what Jesus said about religion, religious leaders, and the outwardly religious.

Who Is This Book For?

 I have long felt there should be a simple, easy-to-read, and easy-to-understand book of Jesus’ teachings for a secular audience. If you are curious about what lies at the heart of Christianity but don’t really know where to start in a dizzying world of evangelical-centered self-help books, scholarly dissections of Bible passages, or incomprehensible and often frightening books about prophecy and apocalyptic end-times destruction. 

My Qualifications

I am not a professional pastor, biblical scholar, academic, or theologian. I am not an ordained minister, I don’t have a PhD in religious studies, and I don’t speak ancient Greek or Latin. I am simply a follower of and lifelong student of the teachings of Christ. Nevertheless, all followers of Jesus are instructed to spread the Good News, so here is my humble attempt to share with you what has been such a positive influence on my spiritual journey, one which continues every day. 

Why is This Book Necessary?

 The world, and America in particular, needs a spiritual revolution now more than ever. This fact seems to be increasingly evident even among those who are not spiritually minded. Unfortunately, there are few resources for non-Christians who have never been exposed to the actual words of Jesus, and have the common perception of Christianity as fanatical, cultish, and narrow-minded without realizing that the teachings of Jesus are primarily an outcasts manifesto for the poor, the powerless, and those seeking spiritual enlightenment.