Sergio DeSoto

Born Again Patriot

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:39:56 GMT

For the believer whose faith and patriotism have grown into a single thing, this is a letter worth reading slowly. In five movements, Sergio traces how covenant identity fused with the flag, the real human hungers that drove it, and the way home — straight to the Father, around every middleman. The seed of his forthcoming Born Again Patriot book.

Christianity Is the System

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:37:34 GMT

What if much of what we call Christianity today is less a living faith than an institution — one that quietly stands between you and God? A Scripture-led wake-up call, gentle but unflinching, for anyone who’s begun to feel the difference between the machinery and the Maker. Bring your questions.

This Can Save Your Marriage. This Can Save Your Life.

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:35:30 GMT

Sergio nearly lost everything that mattered before he learned the difference between four words: reactive, responsive, proactive, reflective. This is the testimony and the turn — what changes when you stop reading your worth off the faces of others and start reading it off the face of God. As practical as it sounds.

The Feast They Were Already Keeping

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:34:06 GMT

Pentecost isn’t the Church’s birthday — it’s Shavuot, an appointment God set on His calendar long before there was a Church to celebrate it. In four short minutes, discover the feast the first believers were already keeping when the Spirit fell, and why you’re grafted in, not starting over.

When the State Says His Name: The Stage Is Being Set

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:32:52 GMT

What happens to the name of Yeshua when a government takes it up for a national ceremony? A thoughtful letter on faith, the flag, and the tax-status pulpit, written ahead of the 2026 Rededicate 250 events. For the Christian who senses the lines between kingdom and country have blurred and wants to think it through carefully.

I am a thief. I am a murderer.

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:31:14 GMT

The thief on the cross is everyone’s favorite proof that you can do nothing and still be saved. But is that what the story actually says? Walk through it line by line and meet a richer picture of salvation as wholeness — including the veil God tore with His own hand while a thief was being made whole beside His Son.

When Kavod Gets Redirected

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:28:40 GMT

What happens when kavod — the weight of glory due to God — gets quietly redirected toward a building campaign? This episode reads one megachurch fundraising page closely and lets it speak for itself. A discerning, Hebraic look at where worship ends and marketing begins, for anyone who’s felt that unease in the pew.

The Mikvah Beneath the Water

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:27:06 GMT

Baptism didn’t start in a church. Long before it, there was the mikvah — the Hebrew immersion Yeshua and His followers already knew by heart. Discover what the water was always meant to mean, and watch a familiar practice come alive again in its original world.

Submit, Woman: What Ephesians 5 Is Really Saying

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:25:41 GMT

The entire ‘submit’ debate rests on two Greek words — and most of us were told the wrong thing about both. Read Ephesians 5 in its context, without the baggage, and discover a picture of marriage that turns out to be far better news than the one you were handed. Wives and husbands both need this one.

Why It Still Holds

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:23:55 GMT

A long drive, an audiobook, and three ideas that explained more about organized Christianity than Sergio expected. A reflective episode for anyone who’s felt the gap between the system they inherited and the faith they actually want — and why the older, simpler thing still holds.

God Said Direct. Man Built Systems.

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:22:24 GMT

From the very beginning, God offered something startling: direct relationship, His Word placed right in your mouth and heart. So why do we keep building systems to hold Him at a manageable distance? Trace that pattern from Genesis forward and ask honestly which side of it you’re living on.

Genesis 3:16 Is Not the Plan. It Is the Wound.

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:19:42 GMT

We’ve been handed a damage report and told it’s the blueprint. This episode reads Genesis 3:16 as the wound sin opened, not the design God drew — and shows what changes the moment you read it for what it is. A companion to everything you thought you knew about headship and the home.

Whole Before You Stay

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:16:42 GMT

You cannot save another person — not your spouse, not anyone. But you can become whole before God first, and decide from that steady place when to stay and when to walk. For anyone carrying a hard marriage or a hard relationship, this names the one reliance that actually holds.

The Tie That Hit Her Heart

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:14:06 GMT

A Jewish friend texted Sergio about something he’d written, asked a question about Genesis 15, and was undone by the answer. A short, true story about the moment Scripture stops being information and becomes personal — and a reminder that you’re never only the one being taught.

How History Hijacked God

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:11:18 GMT

Translation didn’t only change words — it changed the God people thought they were reading about. This episode goes back to the Hebrew to recover the God Yeshua actually knew and prayed to. If your picture of God has ever felt distant or severe, this might be why.

The Verses Penal Substitution Uses to Defend Itself

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:07:26 GMT

Isaiah 53. Romans 3:25. 2 Corinthians 5:21. You’ve heard these verses used to prove a particular theory of the cross. Part three of the Berean study takes all five back to the original languages and lets them speak for themselves — and they may say something quieter, and truer, than you were told.

Shema: The First Thing a Man Must Hear

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:04:59 GMT

Before a man can lead anything, he has to learn to listen. The Shema — ‘Hear, O Israel’ — isn’t a prayer to recite but the covenant loyalty oath that orders a whole life. Discover why Yeshua called it the first commandment, and what it asks of you before everything else.

All Israel Will Be Rescued

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:59:51 GMT

Romans 11 makes a promise most of us were taught to read right past. This episode reopens it and asks what happens to the gospel when we stop fencing it in. If you’ve ever wondered where Israel, the Church, and you actually stand in God’s plan, start here.

Why Penal Substitution Does Not Fit the Text

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:55:25 GMT

Where did the idea come from that God had to punish someone before He could forgive? Part two of the Berean study follows that framework back to an eleventh-century archbishop — not the Hebrew text — and walks through five places the text simply doesn’t support it. Check every claim against your own Bible as you go.

The Root: Yasha — The God Who Rescues

Sergio DeSoto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:51:14 GMT

The word we translate ‘saved’ doesn’t mean what most of us assume. In Hebrew, yasha means rescue — being pulled out of danger — not a courtroom verdict. Follow the word from the Red Sea to the Gospels and discover how much of the good news opens back up when you hear it the way the first hearers did.