<![CDATA[She's So Scripture: The Vault]]>https://shessoscripture.com/s/the-vaulthttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HPGn!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcc6a6c63-ace6-491e-9156-5a5e994d3445_500x500.pngShe's So Scripture: The Vaulthttps://shessoscripture.com/s/the-vaultSubstackThu, 16 Apr 2026 00:40:34 GMT<![CDATA[Mussar Series | Everyday Holiness | Chapter 7: Humility (Anavah)]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-series-humilityhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-series-humilityWed, 15 Apr 2026 17:02:21 GMT
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I’ve been thinking about humility this week, and I don’t think we’ve been taught it well.

For a lot of us, humility meant staying quiet. Not saying too much. Not drawing attention. Just being agreeable and calling that godly.

And if we’re being honest, some of us got so used to shrinking that now it feels normal. We downplay what we carry. We hesitate whe…

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]]><![CDATA[Context Is Queen - John 3:16 Is Not What You Think It Is]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/john-3-16-meaning-nicodemus-eternal-lifehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/john-3-16-meaning-nicodemus-eternal-lifeTue, 14 Apr 2026 11:00:45 GMT
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You’ve seen it on a bumper sticker. On a foam finger at a football game. Embroidered on a pillow at your grandmother’s house. Tattooed on someone’s forearm in cursive. Memorized before you were old enough to understand what any of it meant.

“For God so loved the world…”

John 3:16 might be one of the most quoted verses in the history of Western Christianit…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee April Week 3 - Unmasked]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-april-week3https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-april-week3Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:01:08 GMT
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We've spent two weeks looking at the masks we wear, for everyone else and for God. This week we finally ask the question underneath all of it: what's actually there when the mask comes off?

Week 3 of Unmasked might be the one that changes something. Grab your coffee and come sit with this one.

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]]><![CDATA[Replay - Torah Study for Shemini]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/replay-torah-study-for-sheminihttps://shessoscripture.com/p/replay-torah-study-for-sheminiSat, 11 Apr 2026 18:13:39 GMT
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Hi Friends

Here is the recording of our Torah Portion study this week for Shemini.
Because we have members in places like Australia who cannot join us, I decided to start recording these again.

If you are new here, our Torah portion calls are less of a formal study and more just a discussion and joint study where we ask questions, dig into trying to find …

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]]><![CDATA[Sitting with Scripture: How to Read Narrative]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/how-to-read-biblical-narrativehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/how-to-read-biblical-narrativeFri, 10 Apr 2026 17:02:04 GMT
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You already know how to read a story. You’ve been doing it since you were a child. Someone told you what happened, you pictured it, you felt something, you moved on. And that’s exactly the problem.

Most of us bring the same “storytime” approach to biblical narrative that we bring to a novel or a movie, and it costs us everything the text is actually doin…

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar Series | Everyday Holiness by Alan Morinis | Chapters 1-6: The Inner World of the Soul]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-series-everyday-holinesshttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-series-everyday-holinessWed, 08 Apr 2026 17:02:45 GMT
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If you’ve been with me through Under the Table and How to Get Up, you already know what Mussar can do when you actually let it work. It’s not just information. It gets into the cracks.

Now we’re moving into Everyday Holiness by Alan Morinis, and I’ve been wanting to teach this book since we started this series. Before we get into the individual soul trai…

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]]><![CDATA[Context is Queen - Hosea 4:6 Is Not About Your Bible Study Plan]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/hosea-4-6-lack-of-knowledgehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/hosea-4-6-lack-of-knowledgeTue, 07 Apr 2026 11:01:15 GMT
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You’ve seen it on church signs. You’ve seen it in conference promo materials. You’ve probably seen it in a caption next to a stock photo of an open Bible and a latte. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6.

And the implication is almost always the same: read your Bible more, attend more classes, sign up for this discipleship program,…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee April Week Two - Unmasked]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/unmasked-week-2https://shessoscripture.com/p/unmasked-week-2Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:01:04 GMT

Happy Resurrection Sunday my friends! He is risen!!

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]]><![CDATA[Sitting with Scripture - How to Read a Psalm]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/sitting-with-scripture-how-to-read-a-psalmhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/sitting-with-scripture-how-to-read-a-psalmFri, 03 Apr 2026 17:01:23 GMT
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever opened a psalm, felt something, closed your Bible, and called that a study session. ✋🏼 No judgment. The psalms are powerful enough that even reading them sideways produces results.

But there’s a whole layer of what’s happening in these texts that most of us were never taught to look for, and once you find it, the psalms s…

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar Lesson - Anavah: The Middah of Humility]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-lesson-anavahhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/mussar-lesson-anavahWed, 01 Apr 2026 20:24:28 GMT
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Somebody in the church lied to us about humility, and we accepted it without asking too many questions. Honestly, that tracks, because questioning it would’ve felt arrogant.

Here’s what a lot of us got taught, even indirectly: humility means making yourself small. Deflecting compliments. Not taking up too much space. Staying quiet when you have something…

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]]><![CDATA[Context Is Queen: You Are the Salt of the Earth]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/context-is-queen-salt-of-the-earthhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/context-is-queen-salt-of-the-earthTue, 31 Mar 2026 11:03:31 GMT
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You’ve Heard It. You’ve Probably Said It.

Someone gives a killer speech at a retirement party and you lean over to the person next to you and whisper, “She is just the salt of the earth.” A neighbor who shows up with food every time there’s a funeral gets called that. Your grandmother probably got called that. The kindest, most dependable, most genuinely…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee April Week One - Unmasked]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-unmasked-week1https://shessoscripture.com/p/confessions-and-coffee-unmasked-week1Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:02:29 GMT
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Every one of us has a version of ourselves we show the world. The polished one. The capable one. The one who has it mostly together. This month in Confessions & Coffee we're talking about what lives underneath that. April's theme is Unmasked, and yes… I know it’s not April yet but we are going to spend a little extra time on this series so I am starting…

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]]><![CDATA[Sitting with Scripture - Learning to See Structure]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/understanding-structure-psalm-19https://shessoscripture.com/p/understanding-structure-psalm-19Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:01:30 GMT
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You’ve Been Reading the Bible Like It’s a Random Shuffle Playlist

You know that feeling when you’re listening to a playlist on shuffle and a song comes on that has absolutely nothing to do with the one before it? That’s how most of us were taught to read the Bible.

Verse by verse, chapter by chapter, in whatever order we needed for the day’s devotional t…

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar Series | Under the Table - Chapter 12: The Turkey's Real Name Is Gratitude]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-turkeys-real-name-is-gratitudehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/the-turkeys-real-name-is-gratitudeWed, 25 Mar 2026 17:01:13 GMT
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We finally made it to the end of the story.

And Rebbe Nachman gives us... almost nothing.

“This was how the Wise Man dealt with the Prince, until in the end he cured him completely.”

That’s it. No dramatic climax. No detailed breakthrough moment. No bow on top. Just: the cure happened. He got there.

We are left in the middle, which Greenbaum says is exactly…

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]]><![CDATA[Context Is Queen - "Take Every Thought Captive" Is Not a Therapy Verse]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/take-every-thought-captivehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/take-every-thought-captiveTue, 24 Mar 2026 11:03:20 GMT
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If “take every thought captive” meant what we usually think it means, Paul would have needed a nap and a therapist.

Because the way this verse gets quoted, you’d think he was talking about managing intrusive thoughts, silencing anxiety, or running mental quality control on every idea that floats through your brain between waking up and making coffee.

That…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee March Week 4 - Unapologetic Faith]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/unapologetic-faith-week-4https://shessoscripture.com/p/unapologetic-faith-week-4Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:02:21 GMT
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Hey there friends,

Standing firm in your faith doesn’t have to mean becoming sharp, defensive, or difficult.

This final week of Unapologetic Faith is about learning how to hold your convictions with clarity while still reflecting the heart of God. Truth and grace were never meant to compete. They were always meant to work together.

You don’t have to choose…

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]]><![CDATA[Sitting with Scripture: The Bible Wasn't Written in Chapters and Verses]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/chapters-and-verseshttps://shessoscripture.com/p/chapters-and-versesFri, 20 Mar 2026 17:03:06 GMT

I need to tell you something that might feel like a small detail but is actually going to change how you read your Bible from this point forward.

The chapters and verses in your Bible weren’t put there by the authors.

They weren’t put there by God.

They were added by a medieval theology professor and a French printer centuries after the ink was dry.

I know.…

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]]><![CDATA[Mussar Series | Under the Table, Chapter 11: Up to the Table - The Personal Connection]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/the-turkey-can-come-to-the-tablehttps://shessoscripture.com/p/the-turkey-can-come-to-the-tableWed, 18 Mar 2026 17:00:22 GMT
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Can we talk about the audacity of the Wise Man for a second?

He has spent all this time patiently coaxing the Prince out from under the table. One garment at a time. No rushing, no forcing, no drama. And now the Prince is clothed, he’s eaten, and the Wise Man looks at him and says the thing nobody else in that palace had the nerve to say:

“You can be a tu…

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]]><![CDATA[Context Is Queen - "Before I Formed You in the Womb" Was Not Written for Your Baby Shower]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/before-i-formed-youhttps://shessoscripture.com/p/before-i-formed-youTue, 17 Mar 2026 11:03:06 GMT

Jeremiah 1:5 is one of the most quoted verses in the Bible. It’s on nursery walls. It’s on graduation cards. It’s cross-stitched onto pillows. It’s calligraphed onto baby announcements. It has been turned into the ultimate affirmation that you are special and God has a wonderful plan for your life.

And listen, God does know you, and He does have purposes…

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]]><![CDATA[Confessions & Coffee March Week 3 - Unapologetic Faith]]>https://shessoscripture.com/p/unapologetic-faith-week-3https://shessoscripture.com/p/unapologetic-faith-week-3Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:02:15 GMT
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Hey there my friends,

Most of us like harmony, right? We like when conversations end with understanding and agreement.

But faith doesn’t always unfold in comfortable spaces.

This week’s Confessions & Coffee is about what happens when your convictions don’t line up with everyone else’s expectations. It’s about learning to stay steady when opinions differ an…

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