What Leaven Does
Bread and crackers are made of nearly the same stuff, but no one confuses them — and the Gospels kept two words for it too. Set aside the old fight over which one Jesus broke, and watch instead what leaven actually does.
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The Old Leaven and the New
For seven days each year, every trace of leaven is swept from the house. If leaven never meant sin, what is actually being cleared out — and why does it come back, risen, by Pentecost?
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Paul Wasn’t There Either
Paul never saw the cross — he came in years late, on the wrong side of it — yet no one in the New Testament staked more on it than he did. Why would a man build everything on an afternoon he wasn’t there for?
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We Weren’t There
Strip the familiarity off a baptism and it’s a strange thing to do to someone — laid all the way back until the water closes over the face, held under, then lifted out. A staged death, with a rising on the end of it. And the claim underneath it is stranger still: that it’s his death, and we’re joined into it — even those of us who weren’t there.
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Feast of Weeks/Firstfruits/Leaven & Pentecost Food for Thought Fulfillments Jesus/Christ/Logos Learning to See
The Disciples Didn’t Understand Either
For three years they had the closest seat in the room — the miracles, the private explanations, every day at his side. And the Gospels are oddly honest that they understood almost none of it. Not before the cross. Not even after the empty tomb. So when did they finally understand — and where does that leave the rest of us?
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Days of Unleavened Bread Feast of Weeks/Firstfruits/Leaven & Pentecost Feasts & Holy Days Fulfillments Jesus/Christ/Logos Passover Pattern of Seven Sabbath
Why Pentecost Has No Fixed Date
Every feast God gave sits on a fixed date — except one. The Feast of Weeks you don’t look up; you count to it. And the day you count from refuses to sit still. Why does Pentecost slide?
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From Fifty Days to Eternity
Fifty days of counting. Fifty years of counting. Same pattern, different scales. The difference between them is the difference between time and eternity — and Pentecost is where they connect.
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The Feast of LEAVENED Bread
Many readers pass through the Feast of Weeks without noticing what it actually contains. The two leavened loaves offered at its culmination demonstrate it precisely: The Feast of LEAVENED Bread.
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The Biblical Principle of Cycles Within Cycles
A book lets you skip to the last page and read how it ends. A scroll won’t. In Revelation, the seven seals are sealed shut in a way that’s doing far more than we tend to notice.
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Matthew 13:33 – Some Helpful Questions
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven…” If leaven is a symbol of sin, why would Jesus compare the kingdom of God to it? A few questions worth sitting with — Matthew 13:33.
