Pain amidst blessing

Yesterday afternoon (Thursday, April 26, 2018) I stood with 28 Australian Christians on the Biblical Mountain of Blessing, Mount Gerizim, way up in northern Samaria. The valleys and hills spread out from nearly 900 meters below us were dappled with light as grey clouds heavy with rain and hail charted their course southwards. Rain, so … Read more

‘The beginning of our redemption’

In 1864, famed British Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon proclaimed, concerning the then-still-anticipated restoration of the nation of Israel: There will be a native government again; there will again be the form of a body politic; a State shall be incorporated, and a King shall reign (emphasis added). In November 1948, six months after Israel’s national … Read more

As Israel Remembers

April 18, 2018: Today – as Israel Remembers On Israel’s Memorial Day, when the people of Israel remember the 23,645 of their people who have fallen in war or been murdered by terrorists since the rebirth of their national home, this little girl reads out a letter to her dad, Elad Solomon (36), who was … Read more