Mission Trip – Israel, Wednesday Night: May 21, 2007
We returned to Tel Aviv and Rabbi David asked me if I would assist him as he prayed deliverance for one of our team members. It turned out that quite a few of our team had had familial ties in the Masons. I hesitate to talk about deliverance, because in general, this site is not […]
Mission Trip – Day 7: Wednesday, May 23, 2007: Shavuot!
So I had a secret on this trip. I agonizingly carried around a ring for a couple weeks waiting for this very day! After completing our study of the book of Ruth, we were able to get a couple hours of sleep in at about the time the sun rose. Shavuot was celebrated with the […]
Mission Trip, Israel -Day 7 May 22, 2007
We had been reading the book of Ruth each day for 10 days prior to this night as it was the Jewish custom to study this scripture on this night. This is exactly what the disciples would have been doing as they tarried for the arrival of the Holy Spirit as Jesus instructed them. We […]
Misson Trip, Israel -Day 6: May 22, 2007
This day came with trouble. Our leaders had planned for us to go visit a Kibbutz (small village) near Gaza. There was at that time only one family of believers in this Kibbutz and they needed refreshing. The man had followed his wife into the faith and was not as mature and they were weary. […]
Mission Trip, Israel -Day 5: May 21, 2007
We started the day with worship at Beit Immanuel with the discipleship group. This morning they prayed for New Zealand and the Maori people who are the native islanders. The coolest thing I heard was that some Maori believers were canoeing all the way from New Zealand to Israel to honor Israel and repent for […]
Mission Trip – Day 4, cont’d: May 20, 2007
The timing of this mission trip was based upon the Feast of Weeks, or in Hebrew “Shavuot”, or in Christian “Pentecost”. It’s funny that when we returned from The Land and told my Jewish brother that we celebrated Shavuot, he was surprised to hear that Christians celebrated this day. Soon after, Kara was telling her […]
Mission Trip – Day 3, cont’d: May 19, 2007
So many amazing things happened on that third day in Israel, but one that is both funny and at the same time fills me with wonder, is one that involves my then girlfriend, now bride, Kara. Mike invited a whole group from the largest congregation in Tel Aviv to join so that everyone could pray […]
Mission Trip – Day 3: May 19, 2007
Shabbat! The Holy Sabbath. If you read Genesis Ch. 1, you will notice that the way God views it, a new day begins with the darkness and ends with the light. The evening that comes after sunset is the beginning of that next day which will also end in light. I love these tiny pictures […]
Mission Trip: Israel -Day 2: May 18, 2007
Jerusalem! Today was the day to go see the sights. We were still getting our bearings, both physically and spiritually, so our leaders took us to the heart of it all, Jerusalem, to continue to teach us. I believe there were 14 of us, and we piled into 3 cars and zipped all around this […]
Stagnating or Flowing?
In yesterday’s post, I compared the Sea of Galilee, which flows and empties, to stewarding through cash flow. Then I compared the Dead Sea, which has no outlet, and is thus so saline that it doesn’t support life, to the hoarding of wealth. This natural picture occurs similarly in the spiritual with our finances. Our […]
