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The story of how my discovery of Mussar - an ancient Jewish path of disciplined character development - made 2020 my best year yet.

I began this series of stories with my own testimony and then told you how Holy Language Institute got started. Now, fifteen vignettes later, we've come full circle. I'd already been filming lessons and

In our last conversation I told you how I started with working with volunteers and created our innovative system. In this one I'll share how the experience has been for me personally, especially how I've

Working with volunteers has been one of the most beautiful experiences of my life and has also forced me to face some of my deepest issues. It all started in the spring of 2014. I was transitioning from

In our last story I told you how Yeshua Groups was born and gave you our manifesto. That was more or less the official story. I thought you might also enjoy the unoffical story - some candid reflections

In my last story in this series I told you about my struggles with organized religion and how fake and boring it could be, my haunting realization as the leader of a faith community that what we were doing

This may surprise you, but I don't just direct Holy Language Institute. I also direct Yeshua Groups, a network of groups that get together to tell the stories of Scripture and talk about them "campfire

Yeshua Radio is an international station broadcasting 170 of my sermons 24/7. You can tune in for yourself at but I hope you'll let me tell you the story behind these impassioned messages first. Remember

In the last couple posts I told you the story of my Hebrew Verses and Bible Review series. That leads into this story, how the e-Sword Tutorials happened. I'd been using the e-Sword Bible software in my

So here's the irony. I'm all about getting people reading the Bible that Jesus read, the Hebrew Bible. But guess what the number one question is that people ask me. "Which translation do you

Have you heard of the Mishnah before? Basically it's the oldest Jewish commentary on the Torah. I had studied through the entire Hebrew Bible a couple times and had also read through three different Hebrew

In my last three posts I told you the story of our foundational course, Hebrew Quest. One of the greatest strengths of that program was how I got my students reading the Hebrew Bible right after they learned

In my last post I started by showing you the Construction set where I got way too goofy talking about how Hebrew is 'built' and then finished by sharing a half-hour video compilation of Hebrew Quest highlights

In my last post I showed you the Classroom set I built for Hebrew Quest and told you the story of how the program came to be. This is the Construction set where I had way too much fun showing how the language

My last post was the story of how Holy Language Institute got started. This is the next chapter, how Hebrew Quest came to be. I had been teaching my ten-lesson course across Saskatchewan with great success

This is the story of how Holy Language Institute got started. I had been intensively studying Hebrew for several years and had read through the entire Hebrew Bible a couple times - not to mention several

In the following posts I'm going to share with you about my journey and work but I thought I'd start here by introducing myself and telling a little of my story. I grew up in western Canada in the prairie