Day 1: Israel 2009 – Getting Acquainted and Adjusted
This has been a rough day. Hardly anyone slept on the plane two nights ago and some of us only got a few hours of sleep last night. Another group arrived in the middle of the night making quite a ruckus. But although exhausted, it was a beautiful day. Normally on a trip like this, […]
Back in The Land!
We are in the Land! This will be short as I’m past curfew and must get up in 6 hours, but I wanted to throw up a quick update on the scene here. Today was an arrival day so we spent much of the day in airports. Kara and I didn’t get more than an […]
Scripture: Why Did God Create Man?
God created Man to bear His Image and Likeness and rule the world with Him as His perfect sons. When Man fell from Grace, we maintained His Image but lost His likeness. The fullness of God’s plan was to send His Son Jesus to bear witness to His likeness to a broken world that it […]
The Essence of Love and Service
God is not impressed with any position man holds on earth – as such positions we will hold in eternity will not correlate to those held on earth. But how the hearts of each of us are focused away from the positions and prestige of this world toward the calling and direction of God for […]
Is Israel an Ongoing Picture of Jesus?
Depending when you read this, our team may already be in “the Land” of Israel! As we’ve been doing for the past several days, we wanted to share a little information about our Faith that many in the American Church are never exposed to. I (Wes), plan to update the blog daily from Israel if […]
Jesus Modeled His Image and Likeness
So how do we attain to the likeness of God who is so vast and unknowable? His people in Israel struggled at this impossible task for centuries, but who could know the mind of God? How are we to be Priests and Kings? As sons of God, we have a mighty calling and yet it […]
Can a Country Be Born in a Day?
The following is an email our team received last week from our team leader when he arrived in Israel. As we prepare for this coming mission trip back to “the Land” of Israel, we wanted to spend a couple days sharing more about the Jewish roots of our Faith. Soon we’ll begin giving you live […]
Destined for His Likeness
So – Man is made in “His Image”, but is not currently in His Likeness. We see clearly from the early Apostles who were directly passing on teaching from Jesus, that God created man in His own image, and He intended to give him the spirit of Sonship so that God can fellowship with you. […]
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 […]
Back to Glory
We’ve been discussing how God created us in both His image and His likeness. And how we subsequently feel from that likeness, yet how daily, we are transformed more and more back into the glory and likeness of God – a process which will not be perfected until the end of time. God created you […]