Keep The Faith

The Good Shepherd and the Breath of the Word In my last post, I wrote about how “The Word of God” can lose its breath when our language flattens the living voice of the Father. When Scripture is squeezed into the limits of English, deep spiritual realities can become rigid, literal, and lifeless. Words like death , judgment , wrath , and even separation can lose the warmth, movement, and relational heartbeat they carried in the Hebrew mind. This week, as I sat with several passages from the book of John, I realized how deeply this same issue affects our understanding of Satan, sin, and the work of Yeshua. John uses three different tenses to describe “the ruler of this world” — will be cast out , is coming , and has been judged . English makes these sound like disconnected statements, but when the breath returns, they reveal a single unfolding story of God’s victory. And just like the Word can lose its breath, our understanding of separation from the Father c...

God Is Life: Understanding the Unseen Realm Life and Death Beyond the Visible World We often think of life and death only in physical terms—breath, heartbeat, the beginning and end of the body. But Scripture speaks of a deeper reality. The life and death described in the Bible belong to the unseen realm, where God’s presence, spiritual forces, and eternal truth shape what is truly real. When God Reveals, We Grow Into Understanding As I’ve been studying—both Scripture and what we now know about the human body—I’ve realized something important: when God first revealed His word through Moses and the Prophets, humanity did not yet have the categories to grasp the fullness of what He was showing. God is described as fire. The Holy Spirit is the breath and power of God. Jesus is the Word made flesh. Three distinct persons, yet one God. We may struggle to understand how this works, but God gave us a living demonstration through Jesus Christ—especially in His sacrificia...