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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Many will never have the opportunity to go to Israel and actually visit the Western Wall, the holiest place on earth for the Jewish people. It is a very moving place, and one I find to be extremely bitter-sweet. (Here is a live cam...check it out!) "Sweet" because no people group on earth is any …
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 