Welcome to grahamturner.org

This website gives you access to the text of sermons and writing I have produced over the past 20 years. You will notice the concept of God’s eternal purpose is a framework for much of what I write. In later writings the issue of Hebrew and Jewish roots becomes increasingly evident.

In recent years I have been puzzled by what seems to me an inconsistency in Christianity. On the one hand we Christians base our faith on the writings of Hebrew prophets and Jewish apostles and we base our salvation on a Jewish messiah, yet on the other hand, for most of 2000 years, the church has mainly interpreted the scriptures from the perspective of the Greek worldview.

In our present day there is a difference between how people with a Western background or a Muslim background think about society and values. Similarly, in the early days of Christianity there was a difference between how Jews thought about God and life, and how people from a Greek and Roman background thought. Within a hundred years after the apostles died the church was comprised almost entirely of converts from the Greek and Roman world and they naturally brought into Christianity their ways of thinking about religion and the world. They were the ones who held the great church councils that defined the major doctrines of the church. The Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches have continued these traditions, as have the Protestants to a large extent.

Only in the past 100 years or so have Christians once again begun to take an interest in the Jewish people and the land of Israel. This has then led to an awareness that we need to learn about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. I only came to realize this a few years ago, so it is only in my more recent writings that I take this issue into consideration. For me now this is key issue in all that I study and write.

I hope you will find something here to help and challenge you concerning the Christian faith and its roots. To find out more about me, please see the Author page.