Thoughts.
Notes from the week: a short journal of what we are reading, what we are singing, and what the room felt like after the benediction. When the Sabbath teaching is recorded, you will find the drash and the message tucked in alongside.
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Behold My Servant
Scott walks through Isaiah 42 to show what servant leadership looks like in Yeshua, as Son of David prepares to choose its next congregational leader.
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Twenty Years of Labor
A guest message from the parable of the talents on the weight of what God entrusts to ordinary believers and what it costs to leave it buried.
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A Community of Grace
A Hospital for Broken People
Robin's second week on grace, out of Galatians 6, on who is qualified to restore a brother who has fallen and what kind of congregation broken people can actually walk into.
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The Freedom of Grace
A message from Galatians on what the law was actually given to do, and the freedom that comes when we stop trying to earn what has already been handed to us.
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Foundations
May I See Your Hands
A message on the fundamentals of Jewish evangelism, from how Jewish people actually differ from one another to the two mysteries of Christian reluctance and Jewish blindness.
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Comfort My People
A message on Tisha B'Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, and the orders God has already given his people about how to answer it.
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Foundations
The Gentile Great Commission
A message on the second commission, the one running from Deuteronomy through Romans, that sends the nations back toward Israel.
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Foundations
Every Jewish Bride Was Stolen
A message on the first-century Jewish wedding as a picture of Yeshua the bridegroom and the bride he paid for, left, and is coming back to gather.
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From the Spear to a Covenant of Peace
How Pinchas's zeal turned away God's wrath and won a lasting priesthood, and how that same priestly calling now rests on everyone who bears God's name.
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The Hand of Providence
A July 4th celebration tracing the hand of God through America's founding, from the Pilgrims and the signers to the flag over Fort McHenry.
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Foundations
Christianity's Mother
Why Judaism is the mother that gave birth to Christianity, and why the real difference between the two faiths comes down to the person of Yeshua.
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Foundations
Well-Defined in the Mind of God
Scott's third Foundations message on how God, and not anyone else, defines the identity of a Jewish believer in Yeshua.
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Foundations
The Church Has Not Replaced Israel
Scott continues the Foundations series by showing that Israel and the church are two distinct works of God, and why replacement theology has to be rejected.
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Foundations
To the Jew First
Why the gospel is for the Jew first in every generation, and how Israel's role in God's plan is to carry his blessing to all the families of the earth.
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Making Disciples
The Soldier, the Athlete, and the Farmer
Scott closes the disciple-making series by walking through Paul's three metaphors in 2 Timothy 2 and showing that our weakness, not our competence, is what qualifies us to make disciples.
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Making Disciples
Stories To Give Away
Scott finishes the Great Commission by walking through go, immerse, and teach, then shows how the lessons God has taught us become stories we tell to make disciples.
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Making Disciples
Immersed In The Name
Scott teaches the Great Commission as a mandate to make disciples 'as you are going,' and presses into what it means to immerse a disciple in the name of God.
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Making Disciples
In The Dust Of The Rabbi
Scott closes Yeshua's disciple-making template on the word 'Follow,' showing that following means a living, daily relationship with the indwelling Spirit and demonstrating what it looks like in an actual disciple-making conversation.
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Making Disciples
The Weakness Of The Cross
Scott continues the teaching on cross-bearing, defining it as the daily, willful surrender that dethrones the flesh and lets our shared weakness become the source of real fellowship.
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Making Disciples
When Not To Rescue
Scott teaches that taking up the cross means joyfully bearing another's suffering, which sometimes means staying in the grief with them instead of rushing to fix it.
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Making Disciples
Death at Work in Us, Life in You
Scott moves from murdering the flesh to taking up the cross, where bearing the suffering of others becomes the channel through which the life of Messiah reaches them.
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Making Disciples
Learning to Ride the Backward Bike
Scott connects the joy of Sukkot and God's desire to dwell with us to the patient, daily work of letting our minds be retrained into the likeness of Messiah.
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Making Disciples
Working Out Your Own Salvation
Scott teaches that working out your salvation is the present-tense renewing of the soul, the everyday labor of disciple-making.
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Making Disciples
The Truest You Is Messiah in You
Scott teaches that the believer has exchanged the sinful nature for the divine nature, so the real struggle is between flesh and Spirit, not between two competing selves.
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Making Disciples
The Old Man Is Dead
Scott teaches that the believer's old sin nature was crucified for good, so kingdom living means refusing the flesh's lies about who we now are in Messiah.
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Making Disciples
Taking Dominion the Way the King Did
Scott teaches that the call to multiply and subdue is fulfilled through disciple-making, and that godly dominion looks like service rather than lording it over.
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Making Disciples
We Are the King
Scott closes day five of the disciple-making boot camp by tracing the call to multiply back to Genesis and pointing to a kingdom that is real even while it stays unseen.
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Making Disciples
An Encounter With the Living God
Scott continues the disciple-making seminar by insisting that the goal of all this intentional, relational work is not a head full of principles but a real, experiential knowing of God.
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Making Disciples
The Path That Leads to Life
Scott closes the third session of his disciple-making boot camp by arguing that knowing God, not mastering principles, is what discipleship is really for.
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Making Disciples
The Yoke That Gives You Rest
Scott continues the disciple-making seminar by turning to the yoke of Yeshua and the two rests He offers in Matthew 11 and Hebrews 4.
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Making Disciples
The Flesh Adds, the Spirit Multiplies
A veteran teacher opens a disciple-making boot camp, arguing that every believer is commissioned to multiply and that the work has never belonged to the professionals.