In December 2015 I attended a Christian Leaders Seminar at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Research Center in Jerusalem. In my class was a pastor from Tennessee named Chris Edmonds, and little did we know what excitement we would experience over the course of those 8 days at Yad Vashem. We learned early on that …
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“Saturday People, Sunday People”: A Look at the Islamic Agenda
Lela Gilbert went to Israel for a visit...and stayed for 6 years. Her fascination with the land and with the Judeo-Christian-Islamic conflict led to her recently released book, Saturday People, Sunday People. The premise is one I wrote about in 2015 (When Saturday is Gone, One will find Sunday), and it goes like this: the …
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Reflection on Israel’s Role
Welcome back to the study table, friends. This week's focus is the parting of ways of Jewish and Gentile believers, and yesterday we ended our session with a list of ways this has played out over the years. The Jewish people (both believing and unbelieving) experienced great persecution through major world events such as the …
1st Century Christians and Jews: Fractured Relations
Pull up a chair! We're gathering at the virtual study table to follow up on yesterday's foundational discussion about early Jewish-Christian relations, and God's call of the Apostle Paul as a missionary to the Gentiles. If you missed yesterday's discussion, scroll back to it for a good foundation for today's topic. We have established that …
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