Mark 7:17-19 is one of the most mishandled passages in the Gospels when people want Jesus to have canceled God’s dietary instructions. They quote one verse, pull it out of the actual argument, and turn a dispute about ritual handwashing into a declaration that unclean animals are now fine to eat. That is not what is happening in the passage. The issue in Mark 7 is not unclean animals. This matters, because many people come to this text with the assumption already in place tha

Most believers grow up assuming that if a pastor says something with a Bible in his hand, God must be fine with it. We inherit sermons, church calendars, and traditions, then call it “walking with Jesus,” even when a lot of it never came from God in the first place. Isaiah 29:13 says, "The Lord said, 'Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which

God still works even when He is silent. The book of Esther is famous for never mentioning God. You never see “the LORD said.” You never see open miracles. But everything is soaked in His unseen hand.

Many think belief is enough, but Jesus warned the road to destruction is crowded.

If you care about defending obedience to God and explaining Torah to other believers, you already know what it feels like to care deeply about something only to be told you are taking it too seriously. The more seriously you treat God’s commandments, the more resistance you get, especially when your conviction exposes someone else’s comfort or tradition. People who reject Torah observance often frame it as no big deal. They talk about God’s commandments as restrictive, burden

In this article, I'm going to walk through the history of Valentine's Day, exploring its roots in ancient Roman traditions, mainly the Lupercalia (Luper-KAY-lia) festival, and its transformation into a globally commercialized celebration of love, sexual desire, and lust. It traces back to a supposed "Christian feast" dedicated to a martyr, all the way to the commercialized event we know today. This isn't an exhaustive history of Valentine's Day, but consider this the footnote

From Genesis to Revelation, God's distinction between clean & unclean animals never changes; what He calls unclean is never food.

God doesn't judge worship by how sincere it feels but by whether He actually commanded it. Christmas repeats Israel's golden calf mistake.

God, not the church or culture, defines what is food. Leviticus 11 & Deuteronomy 14 still separate clean from unclean.

Grace saves, faith trusts, & obedience follows. “Not saved by works” never meant lawlessness. See Matthew 7:21–23.

If God's law is truth & Jesus is truth, then rejecting the Law isn’t a minor doctrinal issue, it’s rejecting Him.