Hey friends! Before this new week ends, Passover will commence. (Sunset Saturday evening.) The 8-day bundle of feasts, known most readily as Passover, actually encompasses the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of First Fruits. All are symbolic of the Israelite's escape from Egyptian captivity, only to wander in the desert for 40 years. …
I love going to the Galilee area in Israel, opening my Bible, and watching the Gospels literally come to life. It is impossible not to be changed when, suddenly, Jesus' miracles around the shores of the Sea of Galilee become incredibly vivid. Over 2/3 of Jesus' ministry took place in a relatively small area around …
Happy Sunday, friends! The Sea of Galilee is an amazing place. It can be the most peaceful body of water one moment, and suddenly it becomes a raging sea! Well...actually a raging lake! (It is not a sea, though it is called that!) Mark 4:35-41 recounts the narrative of Jesus sleeping in a small fishing …
Happy Lord's Day! With just less than 5 weeks before the launch of our 2025 Israel Solidarity Trip, many details, including our mission theme, are coming into clear view. Perhaps I'll share more about that as we approach our launch date, but one thing is clear: each of us has committed to go where the …
