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Feasts of the Lord, Friend of the Bridegroom, Seed and Soil, The Wilderness, Watchmen on the Wall

The Joyful Feast of Sukkot (Days 15-22 of the Fall Ingathering Feasts)

Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil. Song of Solomon 6:7 (Song of the bridegroom about his beloved bride) But now Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also has come through a… Continue reading The Joyful Feast of Sukkot (Days 15-22 of the Fall Ingathering Feasts)

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The Mystery of the Feast of Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement (Day 10 of the Fall Feasts)

Adonai, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Adonai. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. Habakkuk 3:2 Again, in the Fall feasts we find ourselves celebrating the future and the past, the already-not-yet, alongside but differently than our neighbors. In… Continue reading The Mystery of the Feast of Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement (Day 10 of the Fall Feasts)

Friend of the Bridegroom, Stories Behind the Songs, Watchmen on the Wall

The Mystery of the Feast of Trumpets (Day 1 of the Fall Feasts)

And then at last, the sign that the Son of Man is coming will appear in the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the earth. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out… Continue reading The Mystery of the Feast of Trumpets (Day 1 of the Fall Feasts)

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Dying to Live (Short Stack), Living Dead, Music

Dying to Live (Day 7): A Wrap Up, A Song, & A Testimony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL8Z2B3da_k&list=OLAK5uy_l752S-kbDvKW6JskQjaTwW7Qqsd1QALB4&index=6 All of this was not simply theology to me. As God was teaching me these concepts I knew that it was also a calling to die, I just was not quite sure how it would happen. But it did. For me it was a gradual thing. I do not have time to share the… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 7): A Wrap Up, A Song, & A Testimony

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Dying to Live (Short Stack), Living Dead

Dying to Live (Day 5): Dying to Your Reputation

  Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:38-39, also found in Luke 17:33, John 12:25, Matthew 16:24-25, Mark 8:35-37, Luke 9:24-25 For everyone who exalts himself will… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 5): Dying to Your Reputation

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Dying to Live (Short Stack), Living Dead

Dying to Live (Day 4): Dying to Your Relational Support System

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 4): Dying to Your Relational Support System

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Dying to Live (Short Stack), Living Dead

Dying to Live (Day 1): The Best and Hardest Thing A Follower of Yeshua Must Do

This will be the first of a series of shorter posts in which we break up a longer post into a daily snippet, at the request of some of Beloved's most faithful readers, who understandably, don't want to spend all day reading a long treatise on a topic, even though we may enjoy writing them.… Continue reading Dying to Live (Day 1): The Best and Hardest Thing A Follower of Yeshua Must Do