Last week (Wednesday evening to Friday evening) Jews around the world commemorated Rosh Hashanah...the civil new year in Israel. It was a time of celebration and blowing the shofar. Rosh Hashanah launches the fall feast season, leading up to Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Biblically speaking, those feasts are the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement …
Continue reading Yom Kippur to Commence at Sundown on Friday…Meanwhile, Days of Awe
This evening at sundown marks the official beginning of the Jewish high holidays for the fall, beginning with the Feast of Trumpets. Throughout their history the Jewish people have commemorated 7 major feasts each year: Passover (Pesach) Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot) Feast of First Fruits (Yom HaBikkurim) Pentecost (Shavuot) Feast of Trumpets (Rosh …
A trip to Israel would just not be complete without a visit to the Garden Tomb, so I stopped by for some quality time last week before leaving the land! Though dispute exists over the actual location of Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection, most evangelicals celebrate this as the place of that miraculous event where …
Last week in Israel I visited the Western Wall. I always find it one of the most bittersweet places to visit. Sweet, because I always get a taste of the profound yearning and reverence the Jewish people have for the God of Israel. Bitter, because, while so close, most seem so far from grasping the …
Looking for the Blessed Hope 