Good news I heard tonight in a span of a few minutes that 1) a believer away from the Lord for several years has returned and 2) that a long-time (70 years) rejector has embraced Christ. These aren’t random people, but ones we love. This is encouragement of the biggest kind.
Southern Jordan trip I’m back from a week of exploring and photographing sites in southern Jordan. Most tourists see only Mt. Nebo and Petra in this area – I skipped both, but saw at least 40 other sites, covering 1100 miles and taking nearly 2000 photos. Unfortunately most of the photos look brown. Here’s a… Read More »
Baby in critical condition after hospital foul-up This JPost article notes that the Israel 2004 state comptroller’s report describes “the fatality rate among premature babies as among the highest in the western world. The report cites bad treatment, unacceptable hospitalization conditions, a lack of trained personnel, dangerous and obsolete equipment in a state of disrepair… Read More »
Calendar 5765 For the third year in a row, MessianicJewish.net is making a calendar with photographs I’ve taken in Israel. This year the theme is “Animals of the Holy Land.” The calendar hasn’t been printed yet, but the above link will take you to the page where you can see the cover photo and order… Read More »
From J. C. Ryle, “The Gospel of John”, via www.gracegems.org “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:11 Affliction is one of God’s medicines! By it He often teaches lessons which would be… Read More »
Pool of Siloam found The ongoing excavations of Ronny Reich and Eli Shukrun have recently uncovered the Pool of Siloam from the time of Jesus (cf. John 9). Exactly the relationship to the pool at the end of Hezekiah’s Tunnel (historically known as the Pool of Siloam) is not clear. Unfortunately I’m going to be… Read More »
How about a photo to spice things up? This is from our camping trip last night. We spent the night on Zorah, near where Samson was born (and buried). The boys liked hearing the stories of Samson. Remarked Luke after one episode, “Sometimes it’s good to burn the foxes’ tails, and sometimes it’s bad.” :-)
This is for me and my one fan out there (whoever you are). It’s a tad roundabout, but Oral Roberts University has a “Librarian’s Web Pick” page. At the top is Jerusalem Perspective Online which links to a page of photos of Israel. Each thumbnail can be clicked to show a medium-size graphic. It really… Read More »
It’s been a busy but good month traveling around Israel. There is always something new to see, and old things good to see again. My favorite new stop was Nazareth Village, a reconstruction of the 1st century town where Jesus grew up. I haven’t been able to do much reading, but I did enjoy this… Read More »
Haaretz – Israel News – A campaign of denial to disinherit the Jews This article describes the recent Muslim movement to deny any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount. This is not new to me – I’ve experienced such nonsense firsthand on the site. But this is a more careful exposition of the lies of… Read More »