One of the most festive holidays on the Jewish calendar is Purim. Chronicled in the book of Esther is the foundation of the celebration. Time after time throughout history, Israel's enemies have tried to destroy them, yet time after time God proves faithful to preserve them. Jewish people are zealous for life and refuse to …
Continue reading A Look Back at Purim and a Glance into the Israeli Mindset
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 …
We live in a world where evil seems to outdo evil every single day: Russia and Ukraine targeting and killing millions of innocent civilians. Christians and other minorities in Sudan persecuted or killed simply for being minorities. Hamas brutally murdering Israelis because they hate them. Now, Sunni radicals are killing Alawites in Syria. Former Syrian …
Have you ever had a flashback of a dramatic event or experience that brought back raw emotion? Sometimes it is like a gut punch that knocks the wind out of you and seems to return you to the very moment of experience. Having been at the Nova site and Sderot in Israel only a couple …
Looking for the Blessed Hope 