Daniel Botkin
- Jun 13, 2021
Seven Guidelines for Understanding Paul’s Letters
The following is excerpted and adapted from my booklet The Ghost of Marcion, written circa 1990. – DB How should a disciple of...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jun 6, 2021
The Seventh Day Sabbath: How Important is it Really?
“Another article about the Sabbath? Haven’t you already written enough articles about the Sabbath?” Apparently not, because the majority...
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Daniel Botkin
- May 30, 2021
Sodom and Gomorrah on Steroids
The title of this article is a line I borrowed from Art Cox, the pastor of our local congregation. Some time ago Art was preaching about the
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Daniel Botkin
- May 23, 2021
Be Mindful of Bemidbar
In English we call the fourth book of the Bible “Numbers,” but in Hebrew it is called BeMidbar, which means “in the wilderness.” This...
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Daniel Botkin
- May 16, 2021
A Fresh Revelation for Shavuot
About a week before Shavuot (Pentecost) a few years ago, I was driving by myself, coming home from my trip to Pennsylvania and New York.
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Daniel Botkin
- May 9, 2021
Covet to Prophesy
Something is terribly wrong. We have been robbed. There has been a spiritual disconnect in the Body of Messiah.
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Daniel Botkin
- May 2, 2021
The Presence of the LORD
In 1969 Eric Clapton and three other musicians released an album that became quite popular among the hippies.
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 25, 2021
Kedoshim: Defining the Set-Apart Life
On April 24 this year, synagogues and Messianic congregations around the world will be reading Leviticus chapters 19 and 20, the Torah...
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 18, 2021
Immigrants & Immigration
You see, we are all immigrants to the kingdom of heaven. We have all been translated from darkness to light.
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 11, 2021
The Slippery Slope of Sola Scriptura
“‘The Slippery Slope of Sola Scriptura’? Did I read that right, Daniel? Haven’t you written in favor of sola scriptura in the past?”
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Daniel Botkin
- Apr 4, 2021
The Necessity of Non-Punitive Suffering
For disciples of Yeshua, the events of the Hebrews’ Exodus from Egypt and the subsequent forty years in the wilderness are supposed to be
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 28, 2021
PASSOVER: A Time for Separating Hebrews from Egyptians
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who put everybody into one of two categories, and those who don’t. I do because the Bible
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 21, 2021
Suffering and Art ~ an Essay by Daniel Botkin
Tisha B'Av: The Destruction of Jerusalem by Daniel Botkin Picasso’s Guernica, Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, Goya’s The Third of May...
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 13, 2021
The Artist's Signature ~ an Essay by Daniel Botkin
The book Art For Dummies downplays the importance of an artist's signature on a work of art. Art For Dummies states that "the presence or
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Daniel Botkin
- Mar 7, 2021
October 31st & December 25th
About 25 years ago the pastor of the congregation I attended preached a sermon telling Bible believers why they should not celebrate...
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Daniel Botkin
- Feb 28, 2021
Yeshua, the Holy Terrorist
We live in a world inhabited by two sorts of intelligent beings: visible and invisible. There are two categories of visible beings:...
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Daniel Botkin
- Feb 21, 2021
The Spirit Behind Art
I have often heard people use the words spirit and spiritual when talking about art and art-related topics, but I have rarely if ever...
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Daniel Botkin
- Feb 14, 2021
O Taste and See!
"O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in Him." ~ Psalm 34:8 I grew up in the 1950s and 60s in Peoria....
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Daniel Botkin
- Feb 7, 2021
Happy is the People Whose God is Yahweh
"Happy is that people that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is Yahweh." (Psalm 144:15) Every loving father wants...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jan 31, 2021
Why So Many Unanswered Prayers?
You have probably heard the old worn-out cliché about God answering prayer: "God always answers prayer. Sometimes He says Yes, and...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jan 24, 2021
The Jethro Model: Of God or Man?
What is the Jethro model? For readers who may not be very familiar with the Bible, we are not talking about television's Jethro Bodine of...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jan 17, 2021
How Saved Are You?
"Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Isaiah 59:1 If you are saved,...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jan 10, 2021
Compromise: Identifying Enemy Warfare Tactics
Compromise can be good or bad, depending on the situation. It can be good when trying to make a decision that will satisfy everyone. For...
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Daniel Botkin
- Jan 2, 2021
Yom Sylvester: January 1st in Israel
According to the Bible, spring marks the beginning of the year. “This month [Aviv, the month of Passover] shall be unto you the beginning...
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