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Reading Biblical Judgment Texts with Humility
The judgement of God is woven through the Law, the Prophets, the teachings of Yeshua, and the writings of the apostles. If we want to read Scripture faithfully, then we have to learn how to sit with judgment.

Elizabeth Shulam
3 days ago4 min read


Hebrews 12 and Endurance
We all experience seasons when the road ahead is unclear, and the strength that once came easily begins to wane. Hebrews 12 speaks directly to that kind of weariness.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jul 105 min read


What Does Romans 11 Teach About Israel?
Romans 11 contains one of the most important discussions of Israel in the entire New Testament. For nearly two thousand years, Christians have wrestled with Paul's teaching in this chapter because it addresses questions that remain relevant today.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 217 min read


What Is a Covenant in the Bible?
Understanding covenant helps readers see that the Bible is one connected story of God’s faithfulness, Israel’s calling, human responsibility, and the hope of redemption.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 2012 min read


How Jewish Storytelling Shapes the Bible
The stories of Scripture are carefully formed. Repetition, parallel scenes, recurring words, family patterns, songs, speeches, and remembered events all help communicate meaning.
Learning to notice these features allows us to read the Bible more closely and understand how its narratives teach.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 2010 min read


The Kingdom Gives Us a Framework for Life
The phrase “kingdom of God” is so often spoken in church that it can begin to feel like a religious slogan instead of a framework that reshapes how we see everything. Yet when Yeshua spoke about the kingdom, He was announcing God’s reign, God’s order, God’s authority, and God’s claim over real people living in a real world.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 203 min read


Walking It Out: Faith That Lives in Public
We believers know exactly what Scripture says, yet there is still that itch to hold it at a safe distance from daily life. We read it, agree with it, underline it, and even share it, but the actual shaping of our day can sometimes stay untouched. James speaks directly to this in James 1:22

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 204 min read


What Are the Biblical Feasts?
Christians are familiar with Christmas and Easter but know very little about the biblical feasts described in Scripture. Yet long before church calendars existed, God established appointed times for His people through the Torah.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 186 min read


Formation After Encounter
Encounter may awaken us, but formation is what teaches us how to walk faithfully afterward. A person may be deeply moved in a single moment and still remain undisciplined, unstable, or immature if that moment is never worked into daily life. Scripture treats spiritual life as covenantal faithfulness formed over time.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 155 min read


Spirit with Purpose at Shavuot
The Spirit came in a Jewish context, among a Jewish people, in a city marked by covenant history, during a feast established in the Scriptures of Israel.

Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 24 min read


Sinai and Pentecost: When God Speaks to Form a People
The revelations at Sinai and Pentecost both are moments of divine speech, divine presence, and covenant identity.

Elizabeth Shulam
May 313 min read


Unity Without Erasure: What Scripture Actually Builds
Scriptural unity never required the erasure of Jewish identity. In Messiah, Jews and Gentiles are brought into one body through peace, not through flattening what God has chosen to distinguish.

Elizabeth Shulam
May 246 min read


Preparing for Shavuot: Learning to Stand Ready Before God
There are seasons in Scripture when God’s people are called to move, and there are seasons when they are called to prepare. Shavuot places us inside one of those preparing moments.

Elizabeth Shulam
May 173 min read


How Shavuot Points Toward Messianic Hope
Explore how Shavuot points forward to Messianic hope through Scripture, and the outpouring of God's Spirit.

Elizabeth Shulam
May 171 min read


Covenant Language in the New Testament
The New Testament does not leave covenant behind. It carries covenant language forward to explain belonging, loyalty, and life in Messiah.

Elizabeth Shulam
May 106 min read


Grafted In: Romans 11 and What Belonging to Israel’s Messiah Actually Means
What does it mean for Gentile believers to be grafted in, and how should that shape identity, humility, and life in the people of God?

Elizabeth Shulam
May 35 min read


The Journey from Redemption to Revelation: Understanding the Counting of the Omer
Israel was brought out in order to be brought to God.

Elizabeth Shulam
Apr 265 min read


Acts Doesn't Look Like the Modern Church: Early church practices in Acts
Reading Acts in its Jewish world helps us recover something steady and needed. The earliest believers in Yeshua were not sustained by image, novelty, or religious performance. They were sustained by devotion.

Elizabeth Shulam
Apr 159 min read


Is Yeshua the Promised Messiah?
The question of whether Yeshua of Nazareth is the promised Messiah cannot be answered responsibly without returning to the Scriptures themselves.

Elizabeth Shulam
Mar 184 min read


Yeshua as the Passover Lamb: Remembering, Redemption, and Living the Story
Elizabeth Shulam Yeshua. Our Passover lamb. Each year, as Passover approaches, Jewish homes begin to prepare. Tables are set with intention. The story of the Exodus is not simply recalled; it is retold as if we ourselves walked out of Egypt. Scripture does not frame this as distant history. It invites participation. In Exodus 12, the instructions are given with remarkable precision. A lamb without blemish is selected, kept, and then slaughtered at twilight. Its blood is place

Elizabeth Shulam
Mar 183 min read
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