Olive trees. They are everywhere in Israel, and they are very fruitful. The olive tree has always symbolized the glory, splendor, and roots of Judaism and Christianity. While touring old Jerusalem one day, we stopped into a shop owned by Jewish author and scholar, Moshe Avraham Kempinksi, and I asked him about the olive tree….
Did you know that an olive tree’s roots never die? Trunks of the olive tree may last about 800 years, but even though the lives of the trunk end, there are always young shoots off the old tree that form new baby olive trees. I realized our ancestral roots never die either. No matter who…
After today, the Pearls of Promise blog will take a short hiatus as founder Lisa Burkhardt Worley travels to Israel. It will resume on Tuesday, December 16th with a three-part series on Lisa’s experiences and revelations from God in the Holy Land. This devotion is based on Lisa’s thoughts prior to departing. “After Jesus was…
Jacqueline Hooks is our guest blogger today. This is what she says about herself and her ministry: “I am an everyday ordinary gal who started following Jesus less than a decade ago, and has fallen madly in love with the Carpenter King who saved my life and my marriage. My husband and I are raising…
“But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed” (Luke 5:16). Did you ever have a quiet place you retreated to as a child? When I wanted to be alone, I climbed a tree in the backyard, and would lean on its branches, dreaming about the future I desired. Always a planner, the stillness in…