Perhaps you have heard accounts of a teenage Palestinian girl recently arrested for assaulting IDF soldiers. The now 16-year-old has been at it since she was 12, and was taken into custody in mid-December for her part in the confrontation and assault on soldiers near her home in Nebi Saleh, a small village in the West …
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The Israeli Security Cabinet has had "significant" meetings regarding threats from the north. Are Iranian-backed militias encroaching on Israel's borders? Are weapons being positioned to harm Israel? See The Times of Israel article regarding security cabinet meetings. Following that, came reports out of Syria that Israel has conducted aerial and ground-to-ground attacks on Syrian army …
Continue reading Threats Increase on the Golan Heights; Subsequent Strikes near Damascus
I have stood on the shores of the Sea of Galilee at Tabgha and wondered what it would have been like the day Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James and John to follow him. (Matthew 4, Mark 1, Luke 5) See Tabgha and Jesus' Disciples. Peter is one of my favorite Bible characters. In many ways, …
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ~Romans 1:16 Though God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, do you realize salvation was for the Jew first? As Gentiles, God's grace …
Looking for the Blessed Hope 