Pesher – How Does the Scripture Apply to Us

Pesher is an interpretive technique where a text is interpreted, not as much related to its original setting, but rather to provide a solution or application related to the current cultural setting.

Pesher is one of those words heard more often in academic settings than in a local congregation. Pesher can be one of those words we hear and we start to blur over. This is unfortunate, as pesher פֵּשֶׁר, a Hebrew word, simply means interpretation. It becomes not what a verse meant to those living when it […]

Is Your Life a Run Away Train?

Is Your Life a Run Away Train? David Reese, thouhtsofgod, thoughts of God, mythoughts, David Reese

The other day I had the television on in the background while I listened to The History of Christian Theology. The movie on television was the The Lone Ranger with Johnny Deep and Armie Hammer. Not usually a movie that would interest me, but I left it on. Like many good westerns, the original Lone […]

Finished, Paid in Full, and Blotted Out

having been; blotted out, wiped away, obliterated, rubbed out - it is; finished, completed, paid, fulfilled, accomplished - having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Colossians 2:14 - Τετέλεσται, Tetelestai, ἐξαλείφω, exaleiphó, mythoughts, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, David Reese

To be saved, is to confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord- (Yehoshua=Joshua+YHWH — YHWH is salvation) along with believing in your heart (our center, mind, will, intention) that God raised Him from the dead. This is salvation, salvation from being separated from God. This is what it means to be born again. […]