You've been thanking God for food you haven't tasted yet. That's not what Torah commands. Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:10 puts the blessing after the meal — after the hunger is gone and the provision is real.
Cathy Colver Garland has earned a seat at the table. Bible nerd, deliverance minister, and the kind of writer who spends six months on a Hebrew name and comes back with something that changes everything. Welcome her right.
The Torah isn't legalism and it isn't gone. It's the Father's letter to His children, given at Sinai as Israel's national covenant and opened to Gentiles through grafting in Yeshua. Here's what you can actually walk in today.
The Scholar's Table is now B'Chavruta — named for the Jewish tradition of wrestling text as equals. This is why I built sergiodesoto.com: a permanent home for everything I write across four lanes — faith, family life, religion, and business — because no writer should build on rented land.
Most people do not reject God. They renovate Him. This essay traces the cognitive dissonance mechanism behind the renovation, the five-step God Makeover that runs across modern Christian life, and what an honest turn looks like when shuv replaces feeling-as-repentance.
The doctrine of total depravity contains a logical crack nobody in the Reformed tradition wants to name: willful sin requires moral awareness, but total depravity claims that awareness was annihilated.