DID YESHUA TEACH A SECRET DOCTRINE

“To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand.” -Luke 8:10 There were obviously hidden threads in the Gospels but I doubt they were nearly as secretive as […]

What Does Genesis 1:1 Mean?

 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. -Genesis 1:1 Seems pretty straight forward right? Well, having recently learned how to read Hebrew I’d say it’s anything but straight forward. The syntax is incredibly elusive and doesn’t really translate into English very well. In fact, Genesis 1:1 was quite the point of contention as […]

Demystifying Thomas 114

This is one of those logia that doesn’t sit right with our modern sensibilities. As is the case with each logion we are to sit with it and meditate until it is revealed to us. The more frustrating a saying of Yeshua may appear the deeper the truth it contains right? I’ve spent months wrestling […]

Creation & Souls: Merkhavah Wears New Clothes

Tohu Wa Bohu (תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ). ‘Without form, and void.’ describes the condition of Earth before God uttered a Word. Tohu is unique to Hebrew and doesn’t really have an English translation so we use words like unformed, chaos, or inconceivable. Tohu is inconceivable because it suggests this totality of a creative dynamism that overwhelms our […]

How Masculine & Feminine Shaped Religion

While hellenization was happening- FUN FACT: all of the collective knowledge we appreciate today comes from a very blended, and multicultural background. Scribes and priests, Holy people and ordinary folks from every culture imaginable have risked life and limb to carry our most sacred knowledge to safety from invasions and fires to the best of […]

A SERVANTS LISTENING HEART

When we reflect on what it means to be born again, or what King David would’ve called being renewed in Spirit, it helps to have a story we can relate to. Luckily, the person who wrote the above verse happens to be one of the most enigmatic characters in the Hebrew Scriptures. That means we […]