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I remember when I was in the Army, deployed to Iraq. I was riding in a convoy, sitting in the passenger seat with my weapon ready, scanning ahead for vehicles that might try to ram us or detonate explosives. Visibility was terrible. The desert sand …

Symbols, History, and How the Church Got Here
 
 
It was probably about a year ago when I was having lunch with a close friend of mine who happens to be a Christian pastor. I was wearing a black hoodie with the Star of David on the front, and …

Very seldom do I do any of my teachings using the name Jesus. I prefer to use His Hebrew name, but I thought it fitting to use it in this teaching so that those that are not comfortable with the Hebrew name could relate more to this blog.
Now, for …

I was recently preparing a message for church the other day, and as I was writing, my mind fell on church leadership in our current church culture. I asked myself, why is it that everyone wants to be the Pastor or the Rabbi? What is it with us …

Jhn 14:6  יהושע said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
 
In today’s Bible verse, Yeshua speaks with His disciples about the betrayal that was to happen soon that would lead to His arr…

For those of you that have been following Torah Awakenings for a while, you guys all know how I like to take in-depth looks into what the Scriptures have to say about various topics. I am a firm believer that it is my responsibility to study the …

As I was getting ready for work this morning, my mind fell on the war in Israel, and all of the protests around the world that are connected to it. I was utterly amazed by at how the world has become so divided on the issue. Once again, the people f…

Recently, there was a story in the news about the Supreme Court making a ruling on a case concerning a man that was allegedly a Christian and as such, felt that he should not have to work on the Sabbath. He felt that his job should make accommodatio…

I know it’s been a minute since I sat down and took the time to blog, but it wasn’t intentional. In fact, I have written quite a few blogs, and I mean, I put some real time in it, but upon completion, I ended up deleting them as opposed to publishin…

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say, “I don’t have to go to church to be saved”, I swear, I would be a millionaire. Throughout my lifetime, I have come across countless people who have said this to me, but upon further question…

Reading Hebrew has been such a blessing for me. As a result, I find that I am able to read the word, and in many cases translate the text for myself, as opposed to relying on the translations of those who translated the Bible. Not to imply they…

We live in an absolutely insane time. It seems that within the past decade, we have begun a downward spiral in the area of morals. If I had to use one word to describe where we are today, I’d choose the word “confusion”. The word confusion is…

While I was at work today, I had the most wildest thought come across my mind. Initially, it resurfaced from a comment I made during the last time I was before my church doing a message. While I was speaking, I had commented on a saying the I hear q…

I have noticed a horrible trend within the past few decades. It would seem that we are having countless shooting rampages being committed all over the nation. As the years go by, the number of shootings seem to increase. It would seem that there is …

Almost everyone on the planet has heard of the Exodus story. We sing songs about Moses speaking to Pharaoh, telling him to “let YHVHs” people go”, and there are scores of movies about it as well. Anyway, while at our Passover Seder last night, part …

In 1912, one of the worst catastrophes in the history of mankind took place. Approximately 1,500 people lost their lives in the icy waters when the Titanic struck an iceberg and went down. It was the maiden voyage of this massive ship. It was l…

As a lay in bed this morning, I thought to myself, “perhaps I should read the Tanakh before reading my non biblical books”. I remembered that I had been reading from the book of Micah, but because I tend to study so many topics at once, i tend to ge…

This weekend, I visited a local church in my city. As I was listening to the Pastor speak, I couldn't help but hear one of the members shout out, "preach apostle"! Up until the moment, I really had no idea that he was an apostle. I mean, prior to th…

So in the past week or so that I have not been on my blog, I had really been engulfed in the teachings of several Messianic Jewish ministries. It’s almost like I am driven to learn and understand more. As I listen to these various Rabbi’s, I find my…

I never cease to be amazed at how the church, or rather church leaders are just so content to focus on the english word studies of Hebrew words translated from the Bible. I put it on the leaders because most believers will not study beyond what thei…

I was asked by my Rabbi to do the Torah portion for last Shabbat. During the week, as I read over it, something from one of the daily readings struck me. God had told Moses to start dividing up the land to the people according to their tribes and in…

So, I am in a Facebook group that focuses on theological debates, and one of the topics of discussion today is was my motivation for this blog post. Initially, the question was concerning child baptism, and if it were scriptural. After watching a fe…

In the midst of everything I have ever blogged about, this seems to be one I would like to consider myself very passionate about. If you were to Google the words “Mosaic Law”, and then browse through the various articles, what you will…

I have engaged many a people within the church on the topic of Torah and it’s relevance, and for the most part, was not surprised at the views of nine out of ten who stand firm on the argument that it was allegedly ended at the cross. Out of the ten…