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Journal

You're Not Commanded to Pray Before You Eat

You've been thanking God for food you haven't tasted yet. That's not what Torah commands. Devarim (Deuteronomy) 8:10 puts the blessing after the meal — after the hunger is gone and the provision is real.
Scripture

When Following God Changes Your Relationships

Why obedience to God sometimes brings unexpected distance, painful clarity, and a deeper alignment with Him
People

The Table Is Growing | Welcome Cathy Colver Garland to the Team

Cathy Colver Garland has earned a seat at the table. Bible nerd, deliverance minister, and the kind of writer who spends six months on a Hebrew name and comes back with something that changes everything. Welcome her right.
People

The Table Is Growing

There's a word for what this space is trying to be.
Scripture

Unpacking #12: The Heist Nobody Noticed

How Rome Stole a Hebrew Faith, Gave It a Greek Makeover, and Sold It Back to the World as "Christianity"
Wisdom

Delighting in God's Instruction: Understanding Psalm 1 and the Law in Light of Yeshua

A defense case: Why Don’t Christians Follow the Law of Moses?
Wisdom

The Torah You Can Keep Today (Jew + Gentile)

The Torah isn't legalism and it isn't gone. It's the Father's letter to His children, given at Sinai as Israel's national covenant and opened to Gentiles through grafting in Yeshua. Here's what you can actually walk in today.
Scripture

The Church's Quiet Crisis: We've Taught Conclusions, Not Discernment

If believers can't think biblically, they'll always be led by personality instead of Scripture.
Journal

Why I Built This Place

The Scholar's Table is now B'Chavruta — named for the Jewish tradition of wrestling text as equals. This is why I built sergiodesoto.com: a permanent home for everything I write across four lanes — faith, family life, religion, and business — because no writer should build on rented land.
Scripture

Unpacking 11: The Quiet Renovation of God

Most people do not reject God. They renovate Him. This essay traces the cognitive dissonance mechanism behind the renovation, the five-step God Makeover that runs across modern Christian life, and what an honest turn looks like when shuv replaces feeling-as-repentance.
Scripture

The Doctrine That Ate Itself: What Total Depravity Actually Teaches and What We've Done With It

The doctrine of total depravity contains a logical crack nobody in the Reformed tradition wants to name: willful sin requires moral awareness, but total depravity claims that awareness was annihilated.
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #17 — "Doctrines of Grace: God's Control and Our Freedom"

A Biblical Review of a Sermon on Sovereignty and Concurrence
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #16 — "Testing the Spirits" (Robb Brunansky, Deseret Digital Media)

He tells you to test the spirits. He never gives you Torah's test.
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #15 — "Fellowship VS Loneliness: Which ONE Will Your Church Build?"

They stayed after the service. That is the headline.
Acts 17:11

THE DOCKET #14 — The Garden Surprise AZ (Pastor Nolan) — Throne Encounters & Enuma Elish

Three sermons from The Garden Surprise AZ. Three videos now private.