If you are familiar with Messiah Texas, you know our adage: You’ve got friends at Messiah Texas! What you might not know is how those friends came to be in the first place. It all started in 2015. Ty Porter, our board President, was the director at Messiah West Coast, another awesome youth camp in California. While […]

1 Corinthians 16:14 says, “Let all you do be done in love.” Obviously, love is important to our Creator. In fact, 1 John 4:7-8 says that those who don’t love, don’t know God because He IS love. I can’t think of a greater motivator for loving others than that very verse. So, how exactly do we love […]

The Jewish people have a long-standing history of other people trying to kill them. What is more worth noting, however, is their long-standing history of surviving, thriving, overthrowing their captors, and winning victory over their enemies. One example of this can be found in the book of Esther. While I have no doubt that you […]

Welcome to 2026, Friends! The new year is upon us, and while I know that as Torah people, we celebrate the new year at Rosh Hashanah, I have always appreciated any moment to have some self reflection and readjustment.  The ending of a year is a really nice prompt to reflect. Our fellowship group in […]

Imagine, if you will, that your phone battery is at one percent and the charger you ordered online has been delayed and won’t arrive for eight days. Now imagine that one percent charge miraculously lasts all of those eight days until your charger shows up in that beautiful brown box on your doorstep. That’s kind […]

Did you know that your thoughts can change your physiology? According to recent studies, you can change the very neural structures of your brain just by focusing your thoughts on certain things! This is such a powerful discovery because it shows that dwelling on good things can have a hugely positive impact on our bodies. […]

For me, there are no memories fonder than a cool autumn breeze billowing the sheets on three sides of me as I eat my breakfast in the Sukkah. The leaves and fronds above my head rustling and the geese overhead flying to warmer places. To linger here is to steep in the presence of a […]

And just like that, it is once again time for the fall holy days–I may be biased, but dare I say it is the best time of year. This year, 2025, the Feast of Trumpets, otherwise known as Rosh Hashanah, falls in September. We can find information about this feast in Leviticus 23:24, where God […]

So far this year, we have talked about what it means to be a Godly father, mother, and friend. But what about when we aren’t operating in those roles specifically? I’m sure we would all like to know what it looks like just to be a plain ol’ human of God. Whether one is a parent or […]

In our current 2025 society, it seems to me that fatherhood is often relegated to disciplinarianism. It’s a father’s job to be the heavy, if you will. To do the punishing when his kids step out of line. With this idea in mind, it is no wonder people sometimes have trouble picturing God as a […]