The thief on the cross has been weaponized for two thousand years. Tradition says he did nothing and was saved. The text says otherwise. A walk through what the story actually tells us about salvation as wholeness, about why the Sinner's Prayer was manufactured, about why the same tradition that uses the thief to argue 'no works necessary' then turns and requires baptism, and about the veil that YHWH tore with His own hand while a thief was being made whole next to His Son.

The kingdom of Yeshua and a named fundraising drive have been welded into a single act. The page indicts itself.

A long drive, an audiobook, and three ideas that explained more about systemized Christianity than I expected.

The Bible is tangible and inspired at once, and pretending either side away is its own kind of avoidance. From Genesis forward HaShem offered direct relationship through the davar placed qarov, in mouth and heart; from Genesis forward we built mediating systems to keep the directness at a manageable distance, and the architecture has been the same on both sides of the family.

A Hebrew reading of what translation did to the God Yeshua knew.

Part two of a three-part Berean walk through "once saved, always saved." The framework that built the modern altar call traced back to an eleventh-century archbishop, and five places in the Hebrew text where it does not belong.

A church in Glendale, Arizona said they are grounded in Scripture. Their About Us page says otherwise. When you test their claims against the original Hebrew and Greek, the cracks are not subtle. They are structural.

He is a gear in a machine. The machine was not built by God.