Chavurat Derekh HaMashiach
Living the Journey, Sharing the WORD
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- Ekev • Isaiah 49:14–51:3 • Matthew 4 & Luke 4 • James 5
- Kenny’s Vanlife Torah Lesson — Abiding on the Road
- Kenny’s Vanlife Torah Lessons — Parashat Chukat When the Water Dries Up and the Father Redirects the Road
- Kenny, the Road, and the Bread of Life
- How to Understand the Bible on the Road — A Vanlife Guide Told by Kenny the Three‑Legged Shepherd
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In Ekev, Moshe reminds me that blessing flows from steady obedience—step by step, mile by mile, not in dramatic leaps. The Haftorah answers the ache of feeling forgotten: Zion cries out, “Has Adonai abandoned me?” and the response is a fierce, tender no. The B’rit Chadashah shows Yeshua in the wilderness resisting temptation with Scripture…
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Out here on the road with Kenny snoring against my leg and the pines leaning over the lake, I feel the weight and the mercy of this week’s readings pressing into my spirit. D’varim opens with Moses retelling the long road behind Israel—how fear, unbelief, and stubborn hearts kept a whole generation wandering instead of…
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The sun was barely warming the lake when Kenny settled beside me, ears forward, watching a tight cluster of American white pelicans fishing like they had a plan. I didn’t. Not this week. Everything I tried to do seemed to close in my face.It started with the friend I thought I could rely on —…
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As I sat in the van this morning with Kenny curled up beside me, the smell of the little loaf I warmed on the skillet filled the air, and I found myself thinking about how bread has always been the anchor of a meal, the same way the Torah portion this week speaks of Israel…
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Dad, I’ve been thinking about this while riding shotgun in the van with my head out the window and my tongue doing its best impression of a windsock. Even though I’m just a three‑legged shepherd with excellent ears and questionable self‑control around cheeseburgers, I’ve figured out something important about the Bible. It makes way more…
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That Finds Me in the VanRolling through the backroads with Kenny sprawled across the passenger seat like he owns the place, I find myself thinking about Pinchas and how this portion threads zeal, inheritance, leadership, exhaustion, covenant, and quiet revelation into one long breath that somehow mirrors my own wandering life. Pinchas receives a covenant…
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Somewhere between Baker City and whatever town has the next Cracker Barrel, I was cruising along with Kenny snoring in the passenger seat — three legs twitching like he’s chasing the angelic squirrels of Gan Eden — when a thought hit me: I’m basically living the life of a wandering Ger Toshav. A stranger traveling…
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Parashah Shlach L’kha always hits me in that tender place between faith and fear. As I roll down the highway in my van with Kenny sprawled across the passenger seat —three legs, full heart, and zero sense of personal space—I feel the weight of this portion in a very lived way. Life on the road…
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This portion hits differently when you’re living on the road. Something about watching the cloud rise, the camp move, the lamps being lit, and the people learning how to follow God’s rhythm feels a lot like vanlife with Kenny—waiting, watching, moving when the moment is right, and learning to trust the journey even when the…
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Parashah Naso is one of those portions that sneaks up on you. It looks administrative on the surface—counting Levites, assigning duties, dealing with impurity, the Nazirite vow, the priestly blessing—but when you sit with it out here on the road, living vanlife with Kenny snoring in the passenger seat, it hits different. It becomes a…
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