Friday Favorites – Poor, Hungry, Desperate
Poor, Hungry, Desperate I did a lot of soul searching upon my recent re-entry from a mission trip to one of the poorest countries in the world – Uganda.…
31 Days to Discover Israel | The Via Dolorosa and The Garden of Gethsemane
Thanks for joining me for this exciting journey. I’ve been able to relive so much of our pilgrimage. I appreciate you choosing to join me, too. The Via Dolorosa (in…
31 Days to Discover Israel | Dome of the Mount and the Wailing Wall
Can you believe we are here? We are at the Temple Mount or Mount Moriah. The Temple Mount is the historical and spiritual focus of Jerusalem revered by the Jews…
31 Days to Discover Israel | Old Jerusalem
Today’s offering: a drive through Old Jerusalem! “Our feet are standing within they gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem, that art built as a city that is compact together.” —Psalm 122:2–3 According…
31 Days to Discover Israel | Caesarea: Herod’s Amphitheater, Hippodrome, and Aqueduct
Caesarea also is known at Palestinae, a city on the shore of the Mediterranean on the great road from Tyre to Egypt about seventy miles northwest of Jerusalem at the…
31 Days to Discover Israel | Caesarea Phillipi
I hope you had a great weekend. Our Israel 2015 presentation went well at Riverview AOG yesterday morning. Today our cyber tour continues; we are going to stop in Caesarea…
31 Days to Discover Israel | Sea of Galilee
Thanks for joining me today for a sail across the Sea of Galilee. A central point in Jesus’ ministry, the Sea of Galilee is known to Israelis as Lake Kinneret;…
31 Days to Discover Israel | Capernaum, Peter's House, Synagogue, Golan Heights
Welcome back, pilgrims! So glad you’ve joined me today in Capernaum (in Hebrew the title means border, between Galilee, Decropolis, and Golan Heights). Capernaum was the center of Jesus’ activities…
31 Days to Discover Israel | The Mount of Beatitudes
Here’s our next stop: Mount of Beatitudes! I am amazed to stand where Jesus taught the Sermon on the Mount! The journey walking up the path to the top of the…
31 Days to Discover Israel | The Wedding at Cana
We are here: Cana, the place of Jesus’ first miracle. Cana is a village in Galilee about twelve miles west of the Sea of Galilee, and it was in this very…