The following is excerpted and adapted from my booklet The Ghost of Marcion, written circa 1990. – DB How should a disciple of...

“Another article about the Sabbath? Haven’t you already written enough articles about the Sabbath?” Apparently not, because the majority...

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

In English we call the fourth book of the Bible “Numbers,” but in Hebrew it is called BeMidbar, which means “in the wilderness.” This...

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.

Something is terribly wrong. We have been robbed. There has been a spiritual disconnect in the Body of Messiah.

In 1969 Eric Clapton and three other musicians released an album that became quite popular among the hippies.

On April 24 this year, synagogues and Messianic congregations around the world will be reading Leviticus chapters 19 and 20, the Torah...

You see, we are all immigrants to the kingdom of heaven. We have all been translated from darkness to light.

“‘The Slippery Slope of Sola Scriptura’? Did I read that right, Daniel? Haven’t you written in favor of sola scriptura in the past?”

For disciples of Yeshua, the events of the Hebrews’ Exodus from Egypt and the subsequent forty years in the wilderness are supposed to be

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

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...

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

About 25 years ago the pastor of the congregation I attended preached a sermon telling Bible believers why they should not celebrate...

We live in a world inhabited by two sorts of intelligent beings: visible and invisible. There are two categories of visible beings:...

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...

"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....

"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...

You have probably heard the old worn-out cliché about God answering prayer: "God always answers prayer. Sometimes He says Yes, and...

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...

"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,...

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...

According to the Bible, spring marks the beginning of the year. “This month [Aviv, the month of Passover] shall be unto you the beginning...