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Sergio DeSoto | The Counterintuitive Thinker
by Sergio DeSoto
Is conventional thinking truly accurate? Is the way the majority of people process information the truth? We will discuss all sorts of topics like business, religion, and politics with a counterintuitive twist. **Proceeds help with our homeless ministry in Phoenix Arizona. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergiodesoto/support
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I Have Been Screaming the Wrong Word
Rome mediated, and burned the men who handed out keys. Protestants gatekeep. For years I aimed the first charge at the second church, and I could not work out why it kept sliding off the people I most wanted it to land on. Say no mediation to a Protestant and he agrees with you. He doesn’t squirm…
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The Heart Hires the Mind
This one started with a book. Reading David Robson’s The Intelligence Trap — a study of how smart people end up believing foolish things — I kept seeing educated minds use their full horsepower to rationalize attachments they had already formed. Robson was not writing about romance. He was...
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There Were No Jews at Nicea
There were no Jews at the Council of Nicea. The men who walked with Yeshua were Jews. The men who ratified the empire’s Christianity were not. That absence is not a footnote to church history — it is the story. This episode walks the sequence in order: * 135 CE — Hadrian bans Jews from Jerusalem...
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The Grave Was a Mikvah
Ask what happened in the three days between the cross and the empty tomb and you get one of two answers: a holy pause, or a raid on hell. The Hebrew was built to say a third thing. In this episode I read the burial itself, from the third sentence God speaks in Genesis to the stone rolled away…
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Communion: What It Really Is, and Why I Refrain
I get invited to church often, and every time we do communion, I refrain. On purpose. This episode is why. Look hard at what we did with that cup. Yeshua put the new covenant in His own blood into the hands of His friends, and we turned it into a sacrament, administered on a schedule, from the...
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He Did It Himself
Most of us were handed a courtroom: a holy God, a guilty defendant, a debt paid on a substitute so the books balance. Millions have loved Yeshua sincerely inside that frame. This episode questions the frame, not the love, because it is not the story the Hebrew Scriptures tell. Their story is a...
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What the Spirit Does With the Letter
Here is where every myth runs out of road, and where the real picture finally comes into view. A letter can be guarded. A letter can be abandoned. A letter can be mistaken for the voice already in your own chest. But a letter can also be written, the true letter, the Father’s own words, somewhere...
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The Community You Cannot Build
We engineer belonging the way a marketer designs a room, then call the feeling "community." But the Hebrew edah was never the building. You cannot build community; you can only become the kind of person it forms around. A study on the people that programs cannot manufacture. We have confused a...
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Born Again Patriot
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.…
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Christianity Is the System
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.…
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This Can Save Your Marriage. This Can Save Your Life.
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...
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The Feast They Were Already Keeping
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. To…
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When the State Says His Name: The Stage Is Being Set
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…
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I am a thief. I am a murderer.
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...
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When Kavod Gets Redirected
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...
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The Mikvah Beneath the Water
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. To hear more, visit...
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Submit, Woman: What Ephesians 5 Is Really Saying
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...
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Why It Still Holds
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. To hear more,...
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God Said Direct. Man Built Systems.
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. To…
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Genesis 3:16 Is Not the Plan. It Is the Wound.
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. To hear more,...
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Whole Before You Stay
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. To hear more…
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The Tie That Hit Her Heart
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. To hear more…
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How History Hijacked God
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. To hear more, visit...
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The Verses Penal Substitution Uses to Defend Itself
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…
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Shema: The First Thing a Man Must Hear
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. To hear more, visit...
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All Israel Will Be Rescued
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. To hear more, visit...
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Why Penal Substitution Does Not Fit the Text
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...
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The Root: Yasha — The God Who Rescues
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...
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She Held It Together. That Was Not Faithfulness.
A lot of homes are held together by a woman carrying what was never hers to carry alone. This episode names the man who quietly walked out of the room — not with his feet, but with his presence — and asks what faithfulness actually requires of him. If you’ve felt that weight from either side…
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If It Had Been a Man (Journal, 2026-04-09)
If a man took a bullet for you, you’d carry his name the rest of your life. So why does the greatest rescue ever told so often leave us cold? A short, honest journal entry about the strange quiet that follows a rescue we never watched happen — and what it might take to feel its weight again. To...
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Once a Son, Always a Son
You’ve heard ‘once saved, always saved’ preached as gospel. It’s true — just not the way it usually gets used. Part one of a three-part Berean study walks the phrase back through the text itself and begins to separate what Scripture actually promises about belonging to God from what the altar…
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He Shall Rule Over You Is Not a Blueprint
If you were ever taught that ‘he shall rule over you’ is God’s design for marriage, this one will stop you. Sergio opens Genesis 3:16 in its Hebrew context and shows it for what it is — a description of what sin broke, not a command God gave. Come see how a single misread verse quietly reshaped...
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More Than Easter
You've celebrated Easter your whole life — but what if the resurrection was never meant to be a single Sunday you dress up for? In this short, personal entry, Sergio sits with the difference between marking a holiday and living inside what it actually means. A quiet, honest invitation to feel a...
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Your Pastor Doesn't Know His Bible Revised
Your pastor does not know his Bible. Not because he is lazy. Because he is a gear in a machine the text never built. A Hebraic walk through Sinai, Jeremiah 31, Matthew 23, and the straight line between you and HaShem that no man has the right to sew shut. To hear more, visit...
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The Breath You Were Never Taught to Recognize
The phrase Ruach HaKodesh appears three times in the entire Hebrew Bible. Three. The doctrine built on that phrase was formulated in Greek, by Greek-trained thinkers, using categories the original authors never imagined. This episode traces the Ruach from God's own conscious presence in the…
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Unpacking #14: From Passover to the Risen Messiah
The institutional church kept the cross but lost the Exodus. It kept the resurrection but lost the harvest. It kept the bread and the cup but lost the Passover table they came from. In this episode, Sergio traces the Scriptural framework God built around the death and resurrection of Messiah,...
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The Root: Pesach, Zikkaron, Chametz, Mo'ed
The institutional church kept the cross but lost the Exodus. It kept the resurrection but lost the harvest. It kept the bread and the cup but lost the Passover table they came from. In this episode, Sergio traces the Scriptural framework God built around the death and resurrection of Messiah,...
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The crown wasn't what you think it was
What you’ve been picturing isn’t in the text. This episode is a cinematic dramatic reconstruction of the crucifixion — built from the Gospel accounts, Roman military history, archaeology, and the covenant arc running from Leviticus through Jeremiah 31. It is not a lecture. It is not a devotional....
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Unpacking #12: The Heist Nobody Noticed
The word "church" doesn't come from the Bible. It comes from a Germanic borrowing of a Greek word for a lord's house. The word Yeshua actually used — ekklēsia — means "assembly." A people called together. Not a building. Not a hierarchy. Not an institution. That one word swap is the heist in...
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Unpacking #11: Cognitive Dissonance and Avoidance
Most people don’t reject God. They renovate Him. In this episode, we’re not doing mystical explanations or churchy blame-games. We’re doing psychology—cognitive dissonance avoidance—and how it quietly reshapes the God of Scripture into something safer, smoother, and easier to sell. We’ll talk…
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Unpacking #10: Lucifer, His Minions, and the Story Scripture Never Told
Lucifer. Demon ranks. Territorial spirits. “Minions.” Most of us inherited a full-blown narrative about the dark side — and we assumed it was Scripture. But when you slow down and actually read the text, the Bible is far more restrained than the system built around it. In Unpacking #10, Sergio...
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Unpacking #9: Satan, Hell, and the Fan Fiction Problem
In this episode of Unpacking #9, Sergio DeSoto dismantles the mental movie most Christians inherited about Satan and “hell”—and shows, text-first, how much of it comes from fan fiction, mistranslation, Dante’s imagination, and revival-era fear engines rather than Scripture. Walking through Job,...
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Unpacking #8: The Pastor Matrix
In this episode of Unpacking, Sergio takes a scalpel to the Pastoral Epistles—1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus—and exposes how these “crisis letters” were turned into a modern pastor blueprint. You’ll walk through the household-of-God framework (1 Tim 3:15), the actual biblical qualifications for...
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Unpacking #7 : The Salvation You Were Sold Isn’t the Salvation Jeremiah Promised
In this episode of Unpacking #7, I go after the version of “salvation” many of us were sold—an altar-call transaction built for speed, seats, and spiritual certainty—then I drag it back to its biblical roots. We walk straight through Jeremiah 31–32 to show salvation as covenant renewal: Torah...
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Unpacking #6: Why Your Church Loves “Africa Missions” (and the $50 Ask)
Tonight’s Unpacking is about the “$50 ask” and the missions story you’re handed from the stage—and the numbers you’re not. We walk through what a real missions P&L should show, what the IRS actually says about charitable travel deductions, why international work often reduces donor visibility…
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Unpacking #5: Acts 15, Gentiles and the Torah
Jesus said He didn’t come to abolish the Law and the Prophets—not even “one dot.” Yet Acts 15 is still used as a Torah ban for Gentiles. In this episode, Sergio anchors the discussion in Matthew 5, then walks through Acts 15 as what it is: a rejection of salvation by circumcision and boundary...
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Unpacking #4: “Not So Among You”: The Church Ladder Jesus Condemned
What if the most “normal” feature of modern church is the very thing Jesus forbade? In Unpacking #4, Sergio DeSoto takes Yeshua’s line in Mark 10—“not so among you”—and uses it as a measuring rod against church hierarchy, celebrity culture, and protected ladders. We walk through the shepherd…
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Unpacking #3: The Tithe Isn’t What You’ve Been Sold
What if the “tithe” you were taught isn’t what the Bible meant at all? In this episode, we walk straight into the tension: Torah tithes, Malachi 3, Jesus and the widow’s mite, and the modern church habit of turning Scripture into a funding mechanism. We’ll talk about how coercion hides in…
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Unpacking #2: The Synagogue of Satan
“Synagogue of Satan” might be the most abused phrase in Revelation—and the irony is brutal: the moment Christians weaponize it, they start doing the very work Revelation calls satanic: accusation. In this episode, we slow down and do the unglamorous work most people skip—definitions, context,...
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Unpacking #1: Reformed Theology
What if one of the most celebrated theological assumptions isn’t just a misread… but a moral rebrand? In this episode, Sergio DeSoto puts replacement theology on the table as an honesty test. In real life, a man who abandons his own people isn’t faithful—he’s a sellout. So why do so many systems...
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Is conventional thinking truly accurate? Is the way the majority of people process information the truth? We will discuss all sorts of topics like business, religion, and politics with a counterintuitive twist. **Proceeds help with our homeless ministry in Phoenix Arizona. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sergiodesoto/support
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