Website of author and publisher Robert F Friedman

Robert the Pastor

Robert A. Friedman grew up in Santa Monica CA where he attended Beth Shalom Temple and was bar mitzvahed at 13. He spent the next year arguing with his Sunday School teacher, maintaining maybe G-d did produce miracles, and that Moses simply didn’t walk through the Red Sea on a sandbar (with the Egyptians drowning in three inches of water) and that maybe Daniel wasn’t a dentist so he could pull the lions’ teeth.

He still identified very strongly with his people, insisting his parents not bring a Christmas tree into the house (“Because of you-know-who”) and was the most serious family member at their yearly Passover seder. He put “religion” on the back shelf until…

…he was a reporter on a major Los Angeles newspaper in 1969 when he was sent to interview evangelist Arthur Blessitt on the Sunset Strip. He was shown many messianic prophecies from the Jewish Scriptures (O.T.). During the next month he discovered the identity of his Jewish Messiah and became a “completed Jew.” He joined the First Baptist Church of Beverly Hills (no, not an oxymoron) and three months later began to teach the Word to high school students during Sunday school. He’s been teaching ever since! He wrote of these experiences in his best-selling, but now out of print, What’s a Nice Jewish Boy Like You Doing in the First Baptist Church?

In the early 1980’s Robert produced, wrote and hosted “Friedman & Friends,” a nationally televised show on TBN geared to Jewish evangelism. Called to pastor, he was ordained and founded Sunrise Fellowship congregation, which he led for ten years (where the Word and the Spirit worked together in power to transform lives). Today Robert is called both to evangelism and to the building up of believers by being a pastor and teacher, prophet and preacher. He actively ministers in the gifts, with a special anointing for words of knowledge and wisdom along with healings and miracles.

In Prince of the Covenant, The Cephas Chronicles and Glory at Bay Coast High, Robert endeavors to expose the Hebraic roots of the faith for believing gentiles as well as to introduce Jewish seekers to the truth of both the old and new Biblical covenants