Shavuot (Pentecost) is God’s Anniversary With Us
As we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel, we wanted to give a little bit more insight into this trip. We leave tomorrow, and today wanted to share some more about the Jewish roots of our Faith. Kara and I have in the last two weeks begun to keep […]
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 – 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 […]
Which should we celebrate…Easter or Passover?
I was so excited to read an article in this morning’s Austin American Statesman that I decided to write this post. I am in the middle of writing the mission trip write-up of my 2007 Israel mission trip. I’ve written about 10 pages of it and soon it will be chopped into bite size blog […]
