On our last day in Israel, we needed to find a restaurant before we headed to the airport for our Friday 10:30 p.m. flight, but every Jewish owned establishment in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv closed at sundown because of Shabbat, so we had to locate an alternative. Jewish people in Israel take the Sabbath seriously….
“Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you” (Joshua 3:5) The Jordan River flows from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. When you step foot into the Jordan, you are wading in extra special waters where God performed some of his greatest miracles. Jesus was baptized by John the…
The water looked ice cold, so I wasn’t sure if I would go through with being baptized in the Jordan River. After all, I don’t like swimming in cold water, and I was immersed years ago in ninth grade. I told the rabbi, doing the baptizing, about my hesitation, and then said confidently, “I meant…
“While you were doing all these things, declares the LORD, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen, I called you, but you did not answer” (Jeremiah 7:13). Shiloh, located in Samaria near Shechem, is the site of the first tabernacle, built by Joshua and the Israelites, and was the center…
You feel God’s presence everywhere in Israel, but if I had to choose the place where I felt the closest to Christ, it had to be the Mount of Beatitudes, overlooking the Sea of Galilee. It was there that Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount, containing the Beatitudes, the Golden Rule, the Lord’s Prayer…