Northward to Tel Dan, Caesarea Philippi, and the Golan Heights

Welcome back fellow sojourners! I hope you are blessed as you travel with us throughout the land of Israel. Today was filled only with sites, but what a day of siteseeing it was. Nothing in Israel is ho-hum! Though our hotel is on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, it was dark when we …

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Trump’s Foreign Policy Team: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?

Welcome back, friends! I am eternally grateful for President Trump’s support of Israel during his first term.  But, with the exception of allowing Israel to take care of business in Gaza and helping the Israelis take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, I’m a bit more concerned during his second term.  We touched on one concern yesterday: …

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“It Will Never Happen to Us!”

Hey friends, it is holiday season and Hanukkah and Christmas will be here before you know it! We will definitely shift our focus toward celebration of those commemorations soon. But alarm bells are going off, so let's address the issue. Again, I harken back to the prophet Ezekiel's admonition in Ezekiel 33 to be faithful …

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The View into Syria

After stops at Tel Dan and Caesarea Philippi, we made our way to Bental, an old IDF outpost overlooking the Syrian border. The well-fortified bunker served as a frontline observation post during the 1967 6-Day War, and more recently featured a coffee shop said to have had the best coffee in Israel. That coffee shop …

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