In the Fall of 2015, Sarah and I were invited to Israel for our first visit. Travel is always exciting, but traveling in the land where 99% of the Bible took place is a whole other level.

There are two different types of goodbye. Two different ways to say goodbye and two different emotions felt when said.

In the Autumn of 971 BC, King David’s son Solomon finally completed construction on God’s magnificent Temple in Jerusalem. The dedication ceremonies were no less magnificent.

John the Baptizer introduced the Messiah, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, in a very curious way when we cried out, “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!” (John 1:29)

Being a child of God shouldn’t be exhausting, but by most Sunday afternoons, I desperately need a nap! However, in the past few years, I’ve been learning to truly REST.

Two thousand years ago, when a Jewish Person needed to travel from Judea to Galilee, he would avoid the most obvious route through Samaria, because as John plainly put it, “Jews had no dealings with Samaritans”. So they would take the long way around. But one Jewish Man and His disciples made a scandalous habit of going right through the middle of it.

From the time my brother and I were little boys, our Dad has been known to introduce us to his friends and colleagues by putting his hand on a shoulder and saying,“This is my son, in whom I am well pleased.

I’ll never forget the feeling of dread that began to wash over me when I realized that we might not be able to find our way out of the woods before nightfall.

The feeling of rejection is one of the most brutal emotions a human being can attempt to navigate. It’s virtually, if not absolutely, impossible not to take any degree of rejection personally.