“The prophets and the apostles had access to that pain, they embraced it as their own, they felt it, and contrary to any intuition it obviously sustained them. It is counterintuitive and paradoxical indeed that pain could sustain, and build-up character. Unless that pain is the expression of undying love…”

“…the seed is the Word of God and the sower spreads the seeds wherever he goes. Not all of them bear fruit and even the ones that fall into good soil bear different amounts of fruit, but this does not discourage the sower. He knows what he has is precious and worthy of being distributed.”

“A cheaply won, ‘personal-escape-route-to-Cloud-Heaven’ Gospel will never be attractive to Gen Z. They want solutions that work on a global and communal scale. My generation is crying out for justice and a half-baked Gospel just won’t cut it.”

The way that the nations behave has never been an acceptable path for the Jewish people. It is a heavy calling and there is no opt-out option for the Jew.

“What made ‘their number’ distinct enough from the rest of the people that they might be recognized as a social unit that could be joined? It wasn’t the venue. They assembled in the Temple. It wasn’t their unique spirit-filled worship services; the worship services were liturgical functions led by the Levitical class. The thing that set the earliest church apart from the rest of the Jewish people was their table.”

“If the coming of Jesus had subverted or altered God’s plan for Israel, Paul would not have been suffering or consumed by unceasing sorrow for his people. Paul’s heart burned for Israel’s salvation.“

“If we lack Jerusalem, we are untethered from the ‘sure and steadfast anchor of our souls,’ the hope of the resurrection and coming restoration. And in our unmooring, we are unprepared to bear faithful witness of the Gospel of the Kingdom to those perishing without knowledge. Worse yet, the danger of a different gospel is that we may well be perishing ourselves.”

After a rollercoaster of negotiations that were threatened by failure at every turn, Egyptian President Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and US President Jimmy Carter succeed in brokering a framework for the first Israeli-Arab peace agreement in 1978.

As the Palestinian Liberation Organization takes root in Lebanon, it sparks a civil war in that small and diverse nation, leading to the first Israeli-Lebanese War.

A demonic confluence of Soviet, neo-Nazi and Islamist ideologies work together to produce the most sensational terrorist attacks of the early 1970's.

The origins of the Palestinian liberation movement are neither organically Palestinian nor truly liberating. The PLO was instead a key piece on the Cold War chessboard; co-opted, financed, and armed by the Soviet KGB.

Israeli commandos attempt one of the most daring rescue operations in human history when 94 of its citizens are held hostage by Marxist and Palestinian terrorists in the Ugandan capital of Entebbe.

Israel is caught off guard by a sudden invasion in the Fall of 1973 and finds itself in yet another existential conflict with its surrounding Arab neighbors.

Faced with impending annihilation by its Arab neighbors, the Jewish State strikes first in June of 1967, winning a stunning victory that reclaims all of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan Heights in just six days.

After a stunning defeat in Israel's War of Independence, a new Egyptian regime attempts to cut off Israel from the rest of the world, provoking Israel's second major conflict with his Arab neighbor.