Parsha Sh’mini is a beautiful picture of the ultimate purpose of Scripture and the heart of God. In our everyday lives, we are on the constant cycle, some may say hamster wheel, of work days and weekends. We deal with the stresses of life all while longing for the rest of the weekend. In parsha Sh’mini, we see the concept of the eighth day, a day that connotes a continuation of the peace and completeness we find in the Shabbat.

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Moses gathered the people to explain the commandments and instructions for the Tabernacle. After Moses finishes his explanation, the people leave. The first of these commandments is Shabbat. In this week’s episode, we want to discuss what happens between our weekly Shabbat. Are we working six days to bring Kingdom?

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One of the most vital things missing in our world today is hope. We are surrounded by chaos, confusion, and anxiety about how things are and what may lie ahead. Yet, we are children of the King of hope. It's just who God is. Today, we are going to discuss God's personality trait of hopefulness. We pray you are inspired to regain hope and spread hope in your own life.

Today, we continue our teaching on having a Godly personality. This week we begin to look at God's personality traits with likely the most important and foundational trait, holiness.

In Parsha Terumah, God commands the nation of Israel to build Him a dwelling place, that He may dwell. But what does it take for a dwelling to be appropriate for the Creator of the Universe? Moreso, what does it take to maintain and sustain that criteria? In today’s episode, we talk about being a worthy housing.

In this week’s episode we discuss the importance of community in keeping the commandments. In actuality, the Torah can not be kept outside of community. How does that affect us today, when most of us live in places that are not Torah pursuant? Join in to today’s episode to find out.

In this edition of our "Read the Bible Better" series, we will look broadly at a few Christian & Jewish approach to Scripture, including a brief look Jewish hermeneutics.

Expectations. We build our lives on a book, the inspired, authoritative, perfect Word of God. What we believe about this book creates expectations in all of our lives. Isn't it important to know all we can about how the Bible came to be? We believe it is a beautiful and miraculous story of God partnering with humanity to reveal Himself to us.

Emmanuel, God with us. A celebration of hope, strength, faithfulness. But there is another side to the fact that God is with us. In this episode, we look back in Scripture to explore the concept of God being present with His people and what this looks like in the Biblical context. 

We don’t often know alot about the time in between the Testaments of our Bibles and there is much misunderstanding surrounding this period. It is a time of incredible upheaval in the Land of Israel and for the Jewish people. This week, we start to take a look at what this period was like and how it affected the life & ministry of Yeshua.

The last two weeks, we have taken account of how the events of Hanukkah shaped the culture into which Yeshua was born, lived, and taught.

 

This week, we want to dive into how the Hanukkah Ethic should affect us, in our time, and in our culture, as we strive to partner with Yeshua in bringing the Kingdom.