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June 19, 2024

Church Leadership

     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…

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May 20, 2024

A Closer Look At John 14:6

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…

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May 2, 2024

Change Always Follows After

  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…

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Oct. 21, 2023

There Was No King

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…

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June 29, 2023

Remember The Sabbath

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…

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June 27, 2023

Women In Ministry: A Closer Look

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 …

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June 1, 2023

Hypocrites In The Church

     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…

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May 3, 2023

Another Confirmation

     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. No…

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May 3, 2023

Random Thought: The Ways Of A Man

       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 “c…

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May 1, 2023

Are You Really In The Fight, Or Are You On The Sideline?

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…

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April 21, 2023

A Random Thought: If It Ain't Broke, Why Fix It?

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 …

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April 7, 2023

The 10th Cup

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…

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April 5, 2023

Let It Sink

     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…

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Jan. 31, 2023

The Torah In The Messianic Age

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, …

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Jan. 30, 2023

A Random Thought: Modern Day Apostles

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…

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Jan. 28, 2023

A Random Thought: Church Theology

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’…

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Jan. 16, 2023

A Simple Hebrew Word Study

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…

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Dec. 15, 2022

A Random Thought: I Don't Know

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…

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Nov. 17, 2022

To the Jew First....

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…

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Oct. 30, 2022

Covenanted: A Code Of Conduct

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, w…

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Oct. 9, 2022

Unbroken

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 t…

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Oct. 2, 2022

The Messiah and Torah

I find it quite interesting how many believers today erroneously hold that Yeshua broke Torah (The Law). In a conversation I had recently with a Pastor, i found that he is firmly convinced that Yeshua violated Torah, and was yet Messiah. So where do…

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Aug. 28, 2022

Returning to the Hebrew Roots

So, I recently had a conversation with a couple of Christian friends discussing the church and how many are slowly turning from their current theology, back to the Hebrew roots of its faith. It seems many of them are starting to see the relevance of…

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June 26, 2022

A Random Thought: The Israeli Jews

I have noticing the amount of anti-semitism going on world wide. It is really getting crazy, or should I say crazy-er. One Rabbi made a comment that the amount of hatred toward the Jews is almost equal to the Hitler era. In the midst of all of it, I…

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