Into the Judean Wilderness

Today's journey was a new one for us all. We loaded up and headed out at 8:00am with Timna on our radar. Since dropping south from Bet She'an a couple days ago, we've been in barren desert! We saw it in the lower half of the Jordan River Valley and around the Dead Sea. Barrenness …

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Lamb of God: The Reason for the Season

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29, 36), was born to die, that you and I might live!  As we discovered yesterday, Jesus is both the Lamb of God and the Good Shepherd.  He was born in a lowly stable, visited by lowly shepherds and …

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Jesus in the Passover

Happy Saturday, friends! We're leaving the chaos of this world behind for today to focus on the beginning of the feasts of Israel. Monday at sundown marks the beginning of Passover, an 8-day commemoration of God's deliverance of the Jewish people from Egyptian captivity. Passover is the first of seven major feasts of Israel. Embedded …

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Passover Through the Eyes of Barabbas

Passover begins at sunset tomorrow and happens to correlate with the Christian commemoration of Good Friday this year. It is the first high holiday and major Jewish feast on the Hebrew calendar. It holds great significance for Jews, but for Christians, it also illustrates Jesus as the sacrificial Lamb of God. Just as the blood …

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