Bible Study
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Essays
Working under the anointing
Bringing the creativity of the Creator into your daily life
We needn't see in a mirror dimly
Paul was quoting the Torah in Numbers 8
Titles He Refused
Yehoshua accepted every name that described work he was doing and refused every name that would have frozen that work into a chair only one person could sit in, which is why calling him a rabbi hands him both an office that did not yet exist and one of the three titles he explicitly declined. The refusal was a governing rule about how his people would organize themselves rather than a gesture of modesty, and the movement that preserved it abandoned it within three centuries.
The Room in Jerusalem
A leadership rule preserved in Acts makes presence at the Jordan under Yohanan ha-Matbil the threshold qualification for a seat among the Twelve, which means the senior cadre of Yehoshua's movement came out of the Immerser's camps rather than off the Galilean shore. Once that personnel question stands on its own evidence, the wilderness vocabulary saturating the Fourth Gospel stops looking like literary borrowing and starts looking like native speech, which makes the Johannine corpus the last surviving record of how that milieu talked.
Wise in Their Own Eyes: What Scripture Knew Before Dunning and Kruger
The robe does not confer the text. It usually just ends the argument early. A Berean reading of why the credentialed teacher and the man too afraid to speak are the same failure, and why the beit midrash is the cure for both.
The Torah David Longed to Keep
Psalm 119 is not a praise poem. It is one hundred and seventy-six verses of a man who loved the Torah and could not keep it, begging to be changed from the inside. The new covenant is the answer to that cry, and from Yeshua's own mouth to the last letter of Yochanan, the Brit Chadashah is standing exactly where the psalm stood.
Same Table, a Truer Name
The name is changing, the work is not. The Scholar's Table is becoming The Berean Table, and everything you came for moves with it.
The Grave Was a Mikvah
Ask what happened in the three days between the cross and the empty tomb and you will get one of two answers: a holy pause, or a raid on hell. The Hebrew was built to say something else. The grave was a mikvah, the immersion of the new covenant itself, and what came up out of that water was a crowned King and a heart of flesh. Down a servant, up the King, and the water He rose through is the same water you were buried into.
Communion: What It Really Is, and Why I Refrain
He put the new covenant in His own blood into the hands of His friends, and we turned it into a sacrament. Read Hebraically, the cup is a covenant cut once and sealed forever, not a rite to be re-administered on a schedule by a professional. A sealed covenant cannot be re-sealed, and the covenant that retires the mediator was quietly rebuilt into a priesthood. Why I refrain, and what is still left at the table.
Why the Holy Spirit within is so important today
Talking about the trouble both jews who know Messiah, and institutional Christians have with e Holy Spirt. Why it matters.
Saul Already Knew
The West pictures a proud man thrown from a horse and converted to a new religion. There is no horse in the text, and there was no conversion. Saul of Tarsus was a Torah-trained Jew who, on the Damascus road, finally recognized the One his own Scriptures had been pointing to all along, and followed them all the way home.
Have you considered my people, Adam & Eve?
Why was sin used as part of the plan & Satan used as the necessary bad guy?
Gnats, Frogs, Camels—Oh My!
Jesus warned against straining out gnats while swallowing camels. In an age consumed by denominational controversies and endless theological debates, have we overlooked a much larger problem? This essay announces the dangers of allowing anti-Judaism and supersessionism into the church.
The Community You Cannot Build
Church community is sold as the cure for loneliness, but the lobby, the stage, the lighting, and the program are a production, and a production holds you only as long as it runs. The Hebrew edah gathers people around a shared purpose, not a building. You cannot manufacture organic community. You can only become someone around whom it forms. There is one ekklesia, and no program built it.
Christianity Is the System
A Scripture-led wake-up call: everything we call Judeo-Christianity today is a civic institution that mediates access to YHWH through human architecture the text itself never authorized.
The Feast They Were Already Keeping: Shavuot, Pentecost, and the Church's Founding Misunderstanding
Pentecost is not the Church's birthday. It is the appointment HaShem set on His calendar before Israel had a calendar. Shavuot was already there. The Ruach was already moving. You are grafted in, not displaced.
“Praying in the Spirit” — Ephesians 6:18
This is a followup to the study of the word of God [rhema theou] as the sword of the Spirit in verse 17
The Verses PSA Uses to Defend Itself
Part three of a three-part Berean walk through "once saved, always saved." Five verses, original languages. Isaiah 53, Romans 3:25, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13, and 1 John 2:2. The text speaks for itself.
The Root: Yasha — The God Who Rescues
The Hebrew word behind 'saved' means rescue, not legal acquittal. A root study tracing yasha from the Red Sea through the Gospels, naming what penal substitution changed, and documenting the psychological wreckage it left behind.
Elohim's personal presence within us
The joy of the new covenant
Your Pastor Doesn't Know His Bible
He is a gear in a machine. The machine was not built by God.
Unpacking #15: The Breath You Were Never Taught to Recognize
How the Set-Apart Breath of the Living God Became a Theological Third Wheel
What Hebrew Thought Is: Historical Foundations and Why It Matters for Understanding Scripture
A structured introduction to Hebrew and Greek intellectual frameworks — and why the lens you bring to Scripture determines what you actually hear it say.
The reality of daily spiritual warfare
How often do you need to deal with the enemy?
Unpacking #14: From Passover to the Risen Messiah
They Gave You the Finale and Burned the Script
They Burned Him for "Congregation"
When a king commissions a Bible, the kingdom he has in mind is not HaShem's.
The Pattern in the Stone
On the Human Machinery of Faith and the Pattern-Breaker Who Shatters It
Three Hebrew Verbs and a Pharaoh
What Reformed Theology Misses About Hardened Hearts
The Theology That Built the Gas Chambers
How Augustine, Luther, and Calvin Laid the Foundation — and Why the Church Has Never Fully Repented
The Messianic Ignorance: The Practical Work of the Holy Spirit
A veteran believer challenges the Messianic movement's neglect of the Holy Spirit's practical, daily role in the life of Torah-keeping followers of Yeshua.
Unpacking #13: The Crucifixion – We Made It Pretty. It Wasn't.
The Crucifixion Was Not a Symbol. It Was a Sealing — and the Crown of Thorns Was Only the Beginning.
Chazón Yochanan: A Revelation Study Outline
Reading the Revelation of John as a Jewish Document
You Have Been Reading Revelation in a Foreign Language
You have been reading Revelation in a foreign language — and the Western church handed you the wrong dictionary.
You're Not Good. You're Managed.
The difference between a man of good nature and a good-natured man is the difference between covenant and performance. Most of us are performing.
What I Was Really Asking Her to Do
A letter that needed to be rewritten