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Baptism Basics
Immersion: Entering the Life of a Disciple For many believers, baptism is treated as a symbolic milestone—important, but optional, and often disconnected from daily obedience. Yet when Scripture is read […]
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What is a Disciple?
What Does It Mean to Be a Disciple? When Yeshua called men and women to follow Him, He was not inviting them into a belief system alone, but into a […]
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Jesus and The Sabbath
Did Jesus Break the Sabbath? Or Did He Show Us How to Keep It? One of the most common accusations leveled against Jesus in the Gospels is that He broke […]
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Abolish / Fulfill
Did Jesus Abolish the Torah? What “Abolish” and “Fulfill” Really Mean in Matthew 5 Few passages have shaped Christian theology more profoundly—and more problematically—than Matthew 5:17–19. In just three verses, […]
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Ritual Purity
Jesus and Ritual Purity: Life Near God, Not a Language of Sin One of the most common misunderstandings many Gentile believers inherit when reading the Gospels is the idea that […]
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Yeshua
Yeshua: Why His Jewish Context Deepens Our Understanding When we read the Gospels, we are encountering the story of Yeshua of Nazareth, a Jewish man living and teaching among Jewish […]