Flesh and Spirit, Lineage and Grace: Reading the Bible as One Story
It is all one book. One story. Because it is one God. The thesis of this essay is straightforward even if the argument takes time to unfold: from Genesis to Revelation, Scripture progressively reveals that salvation does not come through human flesh, but through the promise of God, the grace of God, the promised Seed, […]
SEVEN LIGHTS – ONE MENORAH
Seven Fulfillment Arcs נ NUN (50): Psalm 119:105—Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path. In this blog, I am exploring the seven “I Am’s” in the book of John in the New Testament. In Torah, the menorah is the seven-branched lampstand in the tabernacle and then the temple, […]
CLOTHING TELLS THE STORY
From Eden to Final Judgment: The Bible’s Clothing Arc and the Wonder of Skin Clothing is woven through the biblical narrative long before we notice how much it has been sewing the story together. Clothing tells the story, but it was never meant to be needed. In creation, God already gave us incredible skin—a living, […]
SAY IT
In the biblical story, there are primary parallels between the Tenach and the Gospels where an earlier saving act or promise is taken up, intensified, and fulfilled in a later, decisive event centered on the Messiah. These are not preacher’s curiosities or casual echoes. They are structural hinges in the canon where life‑and‑death stakes reappear […]
WHERE PARALLELS MEET
Isaiah 66:1-2 Masoretic—So says the Lord, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool; which is the house that you will build for Me, and which is the place of My rest? And all these My hand made, and all these have become,” says the Lord. “But to this one will I […]
FROM IN THE BEGINNING TO THE END AND BACK AGAIN
From Passover to Pentecost to the Wedding: A Parallels-Themed Reading of Tanakh and New Testament Fulfillment The Tanakh moves forward into the Gospels and the Apostolic writings as one continuous story rather than a closed narrative left behind by a later religion. The New Testament presents itself as the fulfillment, climax, and interpretive unveiling of […]
THE SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING
Yesterday a gunman opened fire in a crowded Jewish community in Canada, killing a beloved rabbi. It is hard to understand how so many people around the world think that murdering Jews and destroying Israel is the answer to everything. Ultimately, the explanation can be found in the Bible. There is Light and there is […]
FORGIVE TRESPASSES
To “forgive trespasses” means to let go of resentment and release others from the moral debt of what they have done to you. It is not pretending the wrong never happened, but choosing not to keep collecting on it in your heart. In forgiving, you hand the offense and the offender over to God’s justice […]
SEEING BIBLE PARALLELS ADDS UNDERSTANDING
Parallels Across the Testaments God’s plan and the need for story God’s plan begins at creation and culminates in His kingdom. The Bible is the story of that plan. God created a universe—heavens and one earth—as a house for life, a בית. Then He created the characters in His plan, ordering them so that one […]
THE WORD IS TESHUVA
What does “Identity” and “Repentance” have to do with one another? The Hebrew word teshuva (תשובה) is usually translated “repentance,” but what does it mean? That is what I will explore in this blog. In Jewish High Holy Days liturgy it is said that “Teshuva (repentance), Tefilla (prayer), and Tzedaka (charity) avert the evil decree.” This […]