by Joel Liberman (Author)
Kefa (Peter) is one of those characters we both love to hate yet grudgingly admire. We are horrified at his weakness in denying Messiah when confronted by a mere servant girl
Author Biography
Joel Liberman is the Messianic Rabbi of Tree of Life, a Messianic Jewish congregation in San Diego, California. He is the former Executive Director of the International Messianic Jewish Alliance (IMJA), has served on the Executive Committee of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA) and the Steering Committee of the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS) continuously since 2001. Joel has earned degrees from San Diego State University (B.S., Accounting) and Luther Rice University (M.Div.). He holds both a California CPA license (inactive) and real estate broker's license, having worked in both fields for over twenty years. Joel is the author of a study on the Book of Acts titled Acts of the Emissaries and is the co-author of Lifted Up - Between a Pharisee and a Thief, a study on the Gospel of John from both Jewish and Gentile perspectives. He and his wife Darcie reside in San Diego, CA with their two teenage children.