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All of the blog posts approach reading the bible from a 1st century historical and culturally Jewish perspective as Jesus and his disciples would have, Learn more about this in the hermeneutics category posts.
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The Wheel Illustration – Discipleship Tools
For more than a decade, one of the discipleship tools I keep returning to is the Wheel Illustration from The Navigators. I have drawn it on napkins, notebooks, and whiteboards, […]
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Salvation: Grace, Obedience, and Life
For many believers today, salvation is assumed to mean forgiveness of sins so we can go to heaven when we die. Grace is emphasized—rightly—but often in a way that quietly […]
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The Hebrew Roots Movement: Discernment, Scripture, and a Better Way Forward
Many Gentile believers encounter the Hebrew Roots Movement (HRM) because they recognize something essential: Jesus was Jewish, the apostles read Scripture through Israel’s story, and the gospel is inseparable from […]
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The Twentieth-Century Reemergence of Messianic Judaism
The Twentieth Century and the Reopening of a Closed Door¹ For nearly seventeen centuries, Jewish faith in Yeshua existed under severe constraint. The structures established in late antiquity made it […]
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The Parting of The Ways: Judaism & Christian Fracture
The Parting of the Ways: The fracture of the ekklesia The separation between the Jewish community and the Yeshua-believing ekklesia (The “Church”) was not an apostolic development but a gradual […]
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Paul Within Judaism: A Scholarly Survey
Survey of Modern New Testament Scholarship and the Formation of “Paul within Judaism” Thought. Paul has rarely suffered from a lack of attention. If anything, the problem has been the […]