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Why I Built This Place

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.
Scripture

Unpacking 11: The Quiet Renovation of God

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.
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The Doctrine That Ate Itself: What Total Depravity Actually Teaches and What We've Done With It

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.
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #17 — "Doctrines of Grace: God's Control and Our Freedom"

A Biblical Review of a Sermon on Sovereignty and Concurrence
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #16 — "Testing the Spirits" (Robb Brunansky, Deseret Digital Media)

He tells you to test the spirits. He never gives you Torah's test.
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #15 — "Fellowship VS Loneliness: Which ONE Will Your Church Build?"

They stayed after the service. That is the headline.
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #14 — The Garden Surprise AZ (Pastor Nolan) — Throne Encounters & Enuma Elish

Three sermons from The Garden Surprise AZ. Three videos now private.
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #13 — "Good News for Everyone" (Mark Martin, Calvary Community Church, March 8, 2025)

Martin correctly dismantles Calvinism as man-made theology — from inside a man-made institutional structure.

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