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.

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In this episode, we continue our discussion on Emmanuel. While God dwells here in the hearts and lives of His creation and that is cause for joy, it is important for us to remember that God is holy and there are responsibilities that come along with the blessing of His presence. Audio Player

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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.

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In this second teaching of our “Read the Bible Better” series, we are going to be spending some time laying a good foundation for what the Bible is and what we believe about it as the “Word of God”.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. 

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In this week’s episode, we continue our discussion about Daniel’s relation to Hanukkah.

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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 […]

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Emmanuel. A name, a revelation, an idea, with which we are all familiar. We tend to think, rightly so, of Emmanuel with joy, hope, & celebration but there is another reality of this great advent.

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