Daniel Botkin
Aug 29, 2021
Power to Please Our Heavenly Father
Congregational activities take different forms in different congregations and denominations. Some people pray and praise loudly and...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 22, 2021
Separation: Another Word for Holiness
SEPARATION VERSUS MINGLING Leviticus 19:19 lists three Torah commandments that talk about separation versus mingling: “Ye shall keep My...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 15, 2021
Believing Into The Son of God
If I say the words “For God so loved the world,” most of you reading this could probably finish the statement. “For God so loved the...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 8, 2021
If . . . Then . . . Using Our God-Given Common Sense to Think Things Through
“If... then...” statements are used many places in the Bible. Sometimes they are used to make a point by the line of reasoning called in...
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Daniel Botkin
Aug 1, 2021
A Time to Heal
If you had a choice of living to the age of 88 in perfect health, or living to the age of 90 with two years of sickness spread out...
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 25, 2021
Torah, The Heart & Deception
Written sometime in the 1990s, a short time after having my eyes opened to the Torah. -DB When discussing how to determine the truth and...
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 18, 2021
The Believer and God’s Law
The Book of Psalms opens by offering the reader two roads from which he can choose: the way of the godly or the way of the ungodly.
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 11, 2021
The Seventh Sneeze
Pagan cultures have different superstitions about sneezing. Sneezing, depending on the number or type of sneezes, is believed to be a sign
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Daniel Botkin
Jul 4, 2021
Our Need for Another Nation-Wide Spiritual Revival
When I first became a committed disciple of Jesus during the winter of 1971-1972, there was a revival happening all over the United States.
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Daniel Botkin
Jun 27, 2021
The Way, The Error & The Doctrine of Balaam
Yeshua (Jesus) and the Apostles warned us to beware of false prophets. A few false prophets are mentioned in the Bible, but there is one...
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Daniel Botkin
Jun 20, 2021
Hineni: Behold, Here Am I
Most Messianic disciples are familiar with the Hebrew word hineh from the popular song Hineh Mah Tov, taken from Psalm 133. Hineh mah tov...
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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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