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Whether you're exploring Romans 11, understanding the journey of redemption, or reflecting on the relevance of Passover, the blog offers deep insights into these topics. Join us to expand your understanding and embrace the meaningful teachings tailored for seekers and believers alike.
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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
1 day ago5 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
In The Margin - June 1, 2026
In the Margin is a weekly reflection from Netivyah International focused on Scripture, discipleship, Israel, and thoughtful faith in everyday life. Monday mornings!!! Notifications, news, schedules, stress. Most people jump into the week without slowing down at all. So before the noise takes over, here’s a moment to pause. In this week’s In the Margin newsletter, you’ll find a new blog post, a ministry we support, a Blue Heart Movement reminder, and one resource from our stor
Elizabeth Shulam
Jun 13 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
Torah in Believers’ Lives: Instruction, Faithfulness, and the Shape of Daily Discipleship
So the question for believers is not whether God still cares how His people live. He does. The question is whether we are willing to be instructed.
Elizabeth Shulam
May 276 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
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
Firstfruits and Resurrection: Why Yeshua’s Rising Was Timed
Scripture does not present the resurrection as a miracle floating free from Israel’s story, disconnected from God’s appointed times, or detached from the covenant rhythms that shaped the people of Israel.
Elizabeth Shulam
Apr 94 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
Passover and the Church: Is it Still Relevant? Remembering the Story That Still Defines Us
Yet the New Testament does not treat Passover as a discarded framework. It leans into it, draws from it, and assumes its meaning continues to shape the life of believers.
Elizabeth Shulam
Mar 183 min read
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