The most frequently used name for God in the entire Bible appears over 6,800 times. And most of us have never actually read it because our English translations replace it with “LORD” in small capitals.

The name underneath is four Hebrew letters. It’s built from the verb “to be.” It holds past, present, and future in a single word. And so…

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Friends.

I am sorry for the delay in getting this week’s audio to you. This week’s audio teaching came out of a personal season. I’m not going to share the details because the details aren’t the point, but the question they put in my hands was one I needed to sit with longer than a quick journal entry. So I shifted last minute and made a teaching out of …

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There’s a way of reading Scripture that most of us were never taught.

Not faster. Not more efficiently. Not with a better highlighting system.

Slower. More attentive. More willing to sit inside a question than sprint toward an answer.

The Jewish sages called it Midrash, and it comes from a Hebrew root that means to search out, to inquire, to seek. It’s not…

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Some seasons you’re climbing with confidence. Other seasons you’re climbing from the bottom of something.

The Psalms of Ascent were written for both.

These fifteen psalms, the Shir HaMa’alot, weren’t written for the comfort of the sanctuary. They were written for the road. For the climb that costs something.

This week’s Founders audio anchors into Psalm 12…

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We think forward. Past, present, future. One thing after another, in order, on a timeline we can track.

God doesn’t work that way.

All through Scripture, God speaks about the end before the beginning has started. He names Abraham “father of many nations” before there’s a single child. He gives Joseph a dream about a throne and then lets him sit in a dunge…

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This week’s founders exclusive audio takes you inside the prayer life Yeshua actually lived. The Shema He recited every morning and evening. The Amidah that shaped the Lord’s Prayer. The berakah blessi…

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Yeshua had brothers. At least two sisters. A cousin who succeeded His brother as leader of the Jerusalem community. And grandsons of His family were still being hauled before Roman emperors a generation later because the authorities were afraid of what the name “descendant of David” might mean.

Most of us have never stopped to think about the fact that t…

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If I asked you what it means to be blessed, you’d probably describe something that looks like comfort. Provision. Good circumstances. Doors opening. Life going the way you prayed it would.

But when you trace the word through Scripture, the people God blessed most had some of the hardest lives recorded in the Bible. And the text never treats their sufferi…

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Hi Founders,

Can I be honest with you for a second? Most of us skip the most important step of Bible study and we don’t even realize we’re doing it.

We read something we don’t understand, we pick up our phones, and thirty seconds later we’re reading someone else’s interpretation before we’ve spent a single minute with the text ourselves. And now their len…

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The biblical authors weren’t just recording events. They were shaping how you experience them.

Every word choice, every silence, every line of dialogue included and every one left out is telling you how to read what’s in front of you. The text has a built-in guide and most of us have never been taught to look for it.

This week’s audio is going to teach yo…

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The biblical authors didn’t have bold text or highlighters. They didn’t have headers or font sizes or any of the tools we use to tell a reader to pay attention.

So they repeated things. And most of us read right past it.

This week’s audio is going to teach you how to follow the repetition in a passage and let the text show you what it’s emphasizing before…

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This week I want to talk about something that might feel a little uncomfortable, and I think that’s exactly why we need to talk about it.

If you’ve been walking with Jesus for a while, you’ve probably read certain passages so many times they feel like second nature. And that’s not a bad thing. But somewhere along the way, it’s easy to start coasting on what we recognize instead of pressing into what we might be missing.

This week’s audio is about the difference between familiarity and depth, and why the passages you think you know best might be the ones with the most left to teach you.

Grab your coffee. Open your Bible. Hit play.

If you lead long enough, someone will misread you.

Your tone.
Your motives.
Your boundaries.
Your growth.

And the temptation will be to fix the narrative.

But what if being misunderstood is not something to avoid… but something to be formed through?

In this week’s Founders audio, we explore:

• Why David didn’t chase Saul’s accusations

• Why Yeshua didn’t defend Hims…

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Foot washing often gets framed as a gentle lesson in humility or a sweet object lesson about servant leadership. A reminder to be kind and willing to do small tasks.

And that interpretation isn’t wrong; it’s simply smaller than what’s happening in John 13.

Before Jesus ever reaches for the towel, John anchors the moment in identity.

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Hi Founders!

It feels loud right now.

Not chaotic exactly. Just… crowded.

Advice everywhere. Strategies everywhere. Everyone building, launching, scaling, optimizing. If you’re a founder — especially one who actually cares about honoring God in what you build — the noise doesn’t just sit around you. It presses on you.

And the pressure isn’t always bad ideas…

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This week’s teaching is a deep invitation… not into more Bible reading, but into holy consumption.

We looked at Ezekiel 3 and Revelation 10, where the prophets are told not just to deliver the Word, but to eat it. Sweet in the mouth. Bitter in the belly. That’s what truth does; it nourishes and it transforms.

Too many of us have access to Scripture but la…

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Touch in the Gospels is rarely gentle background detail. It’s loaded. Risky. Often pretty controversial.

So when Jesus allows a woman to touch Him publicly, especially a woman everyone agrees should not be touching anyone at all, the moment carries far more meaning than we usually let it.

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Few passages get flattened like a pancake faster than Paul’s teaching on meat sacrificed to idols. It usually gets reduced to a vague lesson about being considerate, or worse, a spiritual permission slip that sounds like, “It doesn’t really matter what you do as long as your heart is right.”

Paul is doing something far more careful than that.

In 1 Corinthians 8 through 10, Paul is navigating a real, embodied problem. Meat in Corinth didn’t come from the grocery store. It came from temples. It had been part of ritual sacrifice. It carried social meaning, religious memory, and public implications.

And Paul refuses to give a simplistic answer.

He knows idols are nothing.
He also knows meals are never just meals.

That tension is the point.

Knowledge Wasn’t the Problem. Disembodied Knowledge Was.

Paul starts by acknowledging what the Corinthians already know. Idols don’t have real power. There is one God. Eating meat doesn’t magically attach you to a false deity.

He agrees with their theology. But theology that never leaves your head becomes dangerous fast.

Paul notices something the Corinthians are overlooking. Their freedom is being practiced in public. Their eating is being watched and their confidence is quietly reshaping the conscience of others.

Knowledge, in Paul’s hands, is never neutral. It either builds or it erodes.

That’s why he keeps returning to the body. To the table. To the shared space where belief becomes behavior.

If you’re a Founder, this is where we slow down, dig in, and let the text do its full work.

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In this Study with Me series, I invite you to sit with me as we open Scripture together… slowly, intentionally, and with curiosity. We walk through a passage verse by verse using tools like word studies, cross-references, and verse mapping so we can see the richness of God’s Word beyond surface reading.

In this video, we begin with Genesis 1:1, and if you enjoy this type of video let me know in the comments and we can make it a regular series!

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Most people read Genesis 32 like it’s an action movie because it is so dramatic. Jacob wrestles with a mysterious figure, gets a new name, walks away with a limp, and boom, roll credits.

It makes great sermon drama. But right before the wrestling scene is a quiet little moment that carries far more theological weight than the late-night MMA match on the…

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