Stand somewhere out in creation long enough and you can feel it — that what you’re looking at is pointing past itself, to something just beyond where your eyes can reach. You’re not imagining it. The invisible, Paul wrote, has been “clearly seen… through the things that have been made,” since the beginning of the world.

The Bible works the same way. Its feasts, its words, its old stories are things made to be looked through — not a rulebook to master, but a window to see by.

I’ve spent most of a lifetime — six decades now — learning to look. What I’ve seen has changed me, and not as a mere intellectual endeavor. I can’t hand it to you, and no one can walk your road for you. But I can show you where I’ve been looking. Come and see for yourself. If something here rings true, look closer. If it doesn’t, no harm done.

What “Make Christ Your Aim” means

The old word we translate “law” — Torah — comes from an archer’s word: to aim. The law was never mainly a list of rules to keep. It was always aiming — pointing — at one thing: Christ. To “fulfill” it was never to perform it flawlessly; it was to hit what it had been aiming at all along.

So this isn’t a rule to keep. It’s a direction to face.

Where to start

New here? A few places to begin:

Nowhere on That Spectrum

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Something interesting happens when I share certain things on Facebook. One camp reads it and responds with enthusiasm — clearly hearing confirmation of their position. Then I share something else…

From Puzzle Pieces to The Picture of Jesus Christ

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We come into the world confused. Not a little confused, and not about trivial things — confused about the deepest ones, and mostly without realizing it. Picture a table covered…

The Law Was Always Pointing

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The common Bible canon has 66 books and 783,137 words in the King James Version. That is a lot of territory. But there is a thread running through all of…

Through What Lens Do We View the Feasts?

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We never come to the feasts of Leviticus 23 with no lens at all. We always read them through something — and mostly we don’t notice we’re doing it. So…