Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you! Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!” For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, “Peace be within you!” For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. Psalm 122:6-9 The [...]
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you! Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!” For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, “Peace be within you!” For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good. Psalm 122:6-9 The [...]
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד׃ Shema, Y’Israel: Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Deuteronomy 6:4 Since the start of the year, I have been blessed to preach six different places, and nearly every time I pray about what to speak, the Lord impresses upon [...]
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. Matthew 12:50 I had the blessed privilege of visiting Israel from December 28 to January 7 as we welcomed the new year. I served 27 students from colleges and universities around the United States, Canada, and South [...]
In Acts 1, Jesus’s followers stood around him as he ascended into heaven. The group would, forty days later, receive power from on high to be witnesses for him (see Acts 2:1-41). Jesus (Yeshua) made it clear that the purpose of this empowerment was for them to be his witnesses, beginning in Israel and going [...]
One of the exciting stories many of us have grown to love is the story of Joshua and Caleb: the two spies who returned to Israel with a good report. One thing you may not have known is that Caleb in this classic duo was a gentile. In Numbers, we read, “…Caleb the son of [...]
Would you believe that someone loved you if they ignored your cries for help when you were in trouble? I imagine that many of you would answer no. I thought about that last month as I sat with 100 academics from around the world at the ISGAP Oxford Summer Institute at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford [...]
