Today is Saint Patrick’s Day, which means, at least in America, a sea of green t-shirts, drunken parties with green beer, shamrock and leprechaun decorations, and a borderline disrespectful hyperbole of Irish Culture. The more conservative observers might limit their enjoyment to a McDonald’s Shamrock Shake or eat a bowl of luck charms for breakfast,…
And Adonai came in and stood and called over and over, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak for your servant is listening.” 1 Samuel 3:10 1 And the boy Samuel served Adonai before Eli, and the Word of Adonai was rare in those days, there was no vision breaking through. This chapter opens by calling…
I had a chance this weekend to visit two of the most important port cities in the History of Israel, the first is Dor, and the second is Caesarea. Dor was one of the only natural seaside harbors in the ancient land of Israel. The Philistine cities of Gaza, Ashdod, and Ashkelon were tucked a…
Choose this Day: Lessons from the Kings of Israel
“. . . Choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15 Towards the end of the book of Joshua,…
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